Electronic Film System Turns Conventional 35mm RFF Into a Digital Camera

[VinceC]

Nikons and Bessas are especially suited to existing sensor technology. Easy to create a reasonably sized removable back, and framelines are switched manually, allowing to compensate for different sensor size.

An interesting compromise might be a bare-bones RD1-style conversion that dispenses with the weird top dials. Epson can't keep refurbs in stock at $1,500, which shows there is a market for a digital RF solution in the $1,000 to $1,500 price range.

 

[gyuribacsi]

Hello to all of you.
Gentlemen, please! How many people (not RF-maniacs like me) would buy such a camera-cartridge. Look at the market and you can see billions of digital p+s cameras 4 inch long, 3 inch high and with a proximatly thikness of a half inch - pocketables with weigts about 150 gramms a triple zoom-lens producing very good results for the most pictures and for about $300. And all the 2 mp cellphones.
Thats what people want. Not the Leica M8 or Epson RD1 gear.

Our (and my) dreams about this silicon-film-cartridge for my M2, my CLE or my Contax IIIa ´will not fullfill, because there are not enough buyers. And our basic equipments are too large and too heavy for the most of the (snapshot)- fotographers and we need several expensive interchangable lenses too.

Please look at Leica with the M8 and to CV with the RD1. Maybe they can sell about 5000 cameras a year and have to accept very high losses. Leica just finished the DMR because (it is my private opinion) the losses were too high. Would you buy such a cartridge for $2K for each camera? With the teething problems (magenta, banding, green blobs)? I am shure, not.

This silicon-film-cartridge will be a pleasant dream - for ever. Its a pity, isnt it?.

George

 

[anselwannab]

Can you imagine the dust that sensor would pick up taking it out everytime! Holy image fuzzy's and black dot Batman.

Mark