Hi,
Interesting points. I just thought about sending the camera in for
service, they would exchange the memory. However, making the memory
upgradable like PCs that would of course make for a bigger camera but
what a camera then witha large buffer. Interesting dream I think.
Regarding MF backs. They made a test in the Swedish magazine phot
comparing a hasselblad back 37*48 mm (Leaf if remember) to Canon 35 mm
digital and the mf back was giving far more information. I think, I'm
not sure that they have a Kodak sensor which pentax also discussed about
using - same sensor or not I don't know. Signal processing on the Canon
appeared better but there was no contest about resolution, separation of
colors.. In all the MF back was phantastic - however the price was like
a new car. It just made want to be a millionaire. The quality
difference came down to the same old 35mm vs 120 6'6 or 6'4.5 or 6'7
difference on can see on film.
Cheers, Ronald
Lucas Rijnders
Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:13:27 -0700
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:49:36 +0200, Ronald Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I'm sure you're right. The whole idea of the "digital revolution" is
that you dont upgrade but buy new stuff.
Except PC's of course: they have a fully open architecture. Worked
pretty well to corner the market, too... Conventional wisdom however
says that a modular digital camera does not make much sense. The
attempts at it (MF backs, Leica Digital back) do show some severe
compromises in price and size, so conventional wisdom might even be
right, though I am the first to admit that comparing a Leica to a Rebel
on price is not completely fair :o) In that regard it will be very
interesting to see how the D645 will do against the digital-back
competition...
However, I'm sure more memorycan be pressed into the cameras without
incresing the space. The whole
Oh sure. I meant that I think that a camera without exchangeable memory
modules will be smaller than one with exchangeble ones: not the module
per sé are smaller, but you can leave out the connection mechanism, the
'motherboard' need not be very strong, the memory does not need to be
easily reachable, etc. etc.
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Regards, Lucas
