Well, I hate to rain on this parade, but that is just the kind of application I think may not last very long.
What sort of sterilization do they do in between patients? Up here, in the great white north (actually south of where I am in this instance) there was a case a few months ago where they had to track down 71 patients due to a case of potential (and remotely at that) contamination of medical instrumentation. http://www.vegsource.com/talk/madcow/messages/9911380.html A man died of mad cow disease. Turns out he had had a medical procedure performed on him shortly before, and the instrument used cannot be fully sterilized between patients without being destroyed in the process. Thanks, but I'll pass on this particular application of digital film... Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 05 November, 2002 18:19 Subject: OT: I saw digital film today! > Yes, I did!. It was a small thing, about the size of a frame of 35mm film, > but 1/8th of an inch thick. It had a wire running out the back to a PCMCIA > card that plugged into a computer. They took pictures and I saw the results > in 4 seconds. Not bad! > > Unfortunately, I was at the Dentist's office. Yes, he had bought a device > that replaced those little films he used for x-rays of teeth. It is a > perfect application for digital film as it doesn't require a camera, just an > x-ray machine. It works just like the real film, but there is no more > developing. 4 seconds later, they have an image on the computer screen. No > more looking at tiny negatives of teeth, you can bump these pictures up to > full screen size and the resolution looked good. > > I don't think this system was inexpensive. Each room of the Dentist's office > has a chair, drills, and an x-ray machine, but the dental technician who took > the pictures moved the film from room to room as they seem to have only one > unit. > > Seeing this gives me lots of hope for digital backs for my old 35mm Pentax > gear... maybe not next year, but sometime in the future. I'm using 20 year > old cameras. I can wait. > > Regards, Bob S.
