Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Contax even shipped a camera based on the Phillips sensor ... and it >was a disaster.
There were a lot of factors that combined to make the Contax digital a flop: Abysmal battery life and horrible autofocus seemed to be the main operational problems. Apparently, the Contax-supplied RAW conversion software was so bad as to make RAW shots unusable(!) and no one else ever made RAW conversion software for it so you were stuck shooting JPEG or TIFF. Furthermore, the camera could not show image reviews of RAW shots on its own LCD! 6 megapixels was starting to look pretty mundane (to put it mildly) by the camera hit the market. Combine all this with an expensive camera and a very expensive and very small lens line-up and you have a recipe for disaster. Supposedly the image quality was excellent - better than 6 megapixel APS-C (but, unsurprisingly, not quite as good as 11 megapixel full frame). -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
