Read an interesting side-story in the Dutch CameraMagazine (written by Erwin Puts, Leica adepts might know him), about the chip used in the new Mamiya ZD (36x48mm), from Dalsa (Canadian, (once?) owned by Philips), being a full-time (FT) design, which does not require micro- lenses for the same light-sensitivity, and is hence much better suited for (extreme) wide-angle lenses. (currently largest wide angle is a 35mm, but 26mm is in the works)
http://www.dalsa.com/pi/products/DSC.asp Btw, 10.000 euro for the integrated camera-version, 8000 for the removable back (fitting the existing line of cameras)....not bad, not bad at all if wide-angle performance is much better than with microlens chips. (though I now wonder if this detail is also different in the 1D (CMOS) vs 1Ds (CCD), since these are already different by the fact that the protective filter can only be removed from the 1D, and not from the 1Ds (sandwiched/glued onto the CCD)) http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/dalsa.shtml Oh well, probably just as with the high-end JVC's D(I)LA beamers, I'll have to wait some more years before I take the plunge, this gear having dropped in price by at least 50%....:)) (and Canon having implemented the same kind of chip (me skipping all the 1D models thusfar)) Time for Canon to change horses? (they make their own chips, sadly....will take a lot more persuation before they change horses....would have been easier if they already bought these chips elsewhere....only changing supplier) Both 6MP and 11MP full-size chips are listed on that Dalsa page....Canon could have implemented them already....:(( -- Bye, Willem-Jan Markerink The desire to understand is sometimes far less intelligent than the inability to understand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!] * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
