Yah, the big guys kept the 200mpg carburetor off the market too. And that pill you put in your gas tank and fill it with water was kept off the market by the oil companies. And the patent office will not even listen to the guy who have PMM designs. Life is hell, ain't it.
Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Brendan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:05 PM Subject: RE: Call Pentax & Demand A Digital SLR/K-Mount > E film doesn't have the resolution, storage capacity > nor the price to compete. Now if they redid their > offering with a 3-4 mp chip and more memory then it > would be viable, but then no one would buy a new 4 mp > dslr so the big companies offer them no help, the chip > makers to may not want to help them either . > > --- Cyril MARION <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Pat White wrote : > > > > > There may be technical reasons that make it > > difficult to > > > replace a, say, 3-megapixel CCD with next year's > > 7-meg unit, > > > but it would make DSLRs more attractive. You can > > take a > > > 60-year-old film camera and use 2002 film in it, > > which I find > > > pretty cool. I'd like a DSLR that won't be a > > doorstop in > > > five years, or is that just being unrealistic? > > > > Pat, > > > > this is exactly what the e-film offers : to allow a > > replaceable CCD sensor > > into a standard SLR. > > This principle is ideal in theory, but the company > > which sells this (silicon > > film inc.) faces several severe difficulties : > > - the company size is too small to over pass > > thechnical difficulties... > > - it has no financial envergure nor support... > > - it is annoyed ("not helped", or "not supported", I > > dont know the exact > > english world...) by the Big SLR manufacturers, > > which prefer to sell new > > SLR's, instead of allowing used SLR's to be > > digitalized by e-film. > > > > To know more about e-film I enclose the link (those > > who already know if > > forgive me): > > http://www.siliconfilm.com/ > > > > Cheers, > > > > Cyril. > > - > > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. > > To unsubscribe, > > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. > > Don't forget to > > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at > > http://pug.komkon.org . > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Find, Connect, Date! http://personals.yahoo.ca > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
