On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:43 AM, P. J. Alling<[email protected]> wrote: > I've just read Mike Johnston's blog and his call for a Digimat kind of burns > me. Back in the dim days when he was a regular poster on this list, I and > probably a few others suggested just such a camera, (I don't remember who, > but I wasn't alone). Simple no frills digital, maybe even manual focus, > based on something like the MZ/ZX-M. Now he posts it on his blog as if it > was his original idea. It's not like anyone pays me for my photographic > opinions, but it burns me a bit when someone claims an idea for their own > that obviously isn't. > > --
I'm pretty sure he came up with it on his own. The idea has cropped up in quite a number of places independently, including Nikon and Kodak (who made such a thing back in the mists of time, the DCS100 which was an F3-based digital) and of course Leica, who has sort-of built 2 (the DMR and the M8) -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
