I recomend using the "snappy" from play technologies, it will grab video and allow you to digitize up to a 1200x 1024 at 24 bit planes, best part is it costs less then 200.00 us dollars, go to play.com > > Would love to take some pics of a design and might use a camcorder, but > > I'd love to get higher res pics from some sort of frame grabber. > > > > Anyone know of a frame grabber which will input colour pictures AND > > software which can read in several pictures of say 320x400 and build > > up a 640x480 still - suitable for web page output of a quality > > comparable to that from a digital camera ? > > > > OR is there a VHS camcorder which has the capability to download higher > > resolution stills AS WELL as taking movies ? > > Sony produce Digital Cam-Corders, these have the capability to be connected > to a PC to provide digital stills. Unfortunately they require some kind of > 'interface lead', and these are VERY! expensive (as are the cameras!). > > Nigel. > > /--------------------------------------------------------------\ > | Nigel Goodwin | Internet : nigelg@lpilsley.demon.co.uk | > | Lower Pilsley | Web Page : http://www.lpilsley.demon.co.uk | > | Chesterfield | | > | England | | > \--------------------------------------------------------------/