Quoting "P.J. Alling" <[email protected]>:
By the time it was in any way viable as a technology, DSLRs had
already taken over the market. The original IIRC called Silicon
Film had a 2.8x crop factor, 1.3mp images were to be produced with
the "cartridge" having only enough memory to store ~64 images, and
supported only certain models of Canon and Nikon film cameras.
Those limitations were probably necessary to keep R&D and production
costs down, but it always seemed to me that the real market would
have been in a device that would work in more obscure cameras, the
real fun here would be using it in a Kodak Retina folding
rangefinder, or a Voightlander Vito, or one of the systems that had
orphaned lenses from before the auto focus age. I'd have loved to
have a digital LX but when it was finally announced that it would
only support Canon and Nikon, I know I certainly lost interest.
There was a recent attempt to resurrect the digital film cartridge.
The 'Digipod' was to be developed via Crowd Funding but it only
managed to reach 15,000GBP of its 199,000GBP target.
So it's probably dead in the water too. Pity. It could have been fun.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/digipodCheers
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
On 2/8/2014 8:00 AM, Bipin Gupta wrote:
Sir, what happened to the Digital 35mm Casette?
I saw the 10 MP version on the net, and it looked very promising.
I too have the XZ-5, an ME Super and a Leica R5 - all moth balled. I
have been looking forward to the digital casette, so that I can take
them out and give them life once again.
Regards.
Bipin.
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