Back in '89 or '90 the scanning electron microscope tech at the museum where I worked told me of, and lusted after, an oscillating digital back for the SEM. At that time digital capture on a single chip hadn't reached the megapixel, and broadcast analogue video was still superior to single chip digital. The museum's SEM captures were being recorded with a LInhof 6x7cm magazine loaded with Kodak Tech Pan, which was superior to anything digital.
That oscillating back used exactly the same principle as Hasselblad is describing now to capture extra information at intermediate points during an oscillation. During the heady days before the K10D was launched, when many of us were trying to guess at the Big Secret Technology that Pentax were teasing us with (it was 22bit A-D conversion), I brought this up. I imagined that sensor-shift would enable this, but there was obviously a few more years of work to do. regards, Anthony "Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight" (Anon) On 2 June 2011 10:28, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder if this technology will migrate to FF or APSc technologies, > it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to implement it physically in > Pentax DSLRs using their SR system? > > http://www.dpreview.com/news/1105/11052610hasselbladMS.asp > > -- -- 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.
