On 28 Jun 2005 at 2:15, Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
> 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....:((
Forgot to mention, a very sad coincidence in this time & context:
Kodak apparently decided to end their line of DCS SLR-camera's
recently....
(with the rather appalling 'reassurance' that service would be
guaranteed until 2008 (now you also know the life-cycle estimates
from a manufacturer's point of view))
Shame, would have been a nice way to compete with Canon, with such a
Dalsa chip, without micro-lenses....
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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