If you read the translation it has a shutter cocking lever, and a mode knob. Certainly using people power for the mechanical things would save battery life for the electronics. However, it is entirely posible the thing is only a conceptional mockup to check out response to the idea.

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Steve Desjardins wrote:
LOL.  I hadn't noticed that.  Would be a first for a digital, wouldn't
it?


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And, it has a film advance lever and a rewind knob, no?


keith

Rob Studdert wrote:

On 12 Feb 2004 at 18:07, Shel Belinkoff wrote:


http://www.itmedia.co.jp/pcupdate/articles/0402/13/news003.html

Using on-line Japanese translation the header and first paragraph

read:


"PMA 2004

Epson, worldwide first "range finder type digital camera"

With PMA 2004 the SEIKO Epson, range finder type digital camera

reference


exhibition. It is the attention machine of camera maniac drivelling

of the


Leica M mount correspondence and the past years in the design which

is similar


to Bessa-R well. In the middle of March formal announcement

schedule."


Nothing is really definite, it's a teaser, no hands on, the article

goes on to


speculate that it would likely utilize the SONY 6.1 MP sensors

(possibly


similar to the *ist D).

Rob Studdert
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