When there's a market, there's a way.
Tom C. "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered." >From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >Subject: Re: Full Frame/Canon (and their propaganda) >Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:28:13 -0400 > >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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
