A point of fact here. Having worked on these kinds of things, the last being a robot to produce Cell Phone Repeaters (cost $1.5 million), I can tell you that this kind of equipment is usually one-off. The are built to customers specs one by one. They certainly are not production line items. So if you want one specific to producing large sensors you can get one at little or no extra cost. I believe that PerkinElmer also produces step and repeat machines, or at least used to.
-- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- Ken Takeshita wrote: > On 8/30/06, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 8/30/06 10:00 AM, "graywolf", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Another point is that if you do not have the tools to manufacture what >>> you want to sell, you eventually produce the tooling to do it. Put >>> another way, if you can not now produce the FF sensors in a one step >>> process, that does not mean you will not be able to in a couple of years. >> I agree with this too. > > And I am sure Nikon can produce the stepper that can do the FF size, > but they probably see no reasonable market for it, at lkeast not yet. > The machine is awfully expensive and unless there are enough buyers, > they simply do not produce it. Probably the same for Canon. They may > have developed such a machine but not for a commercial use yet. If > they produce the machine, they just have to sell it to other chip > makers to keep the cost down. > > Cheers, > > Ken > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
