Well, I just got the the engineers from Philips Semiconductor to buy me lunch so the day wasn't a total loss ;-) The people I met with today didn't have any information on any of the Philips CCD products (as I expected) but one of them said he could easily find out if Contax is using the Philips part in their camera. I'll email him tomorrow and remind him. I expect that Contax *isn't* using the Philips part. My bet is on Sony as the supplier. Stay tuned.
-- Original Message -- >I've been told (something that doesn't prevent it from being bull***, but >anyway....) that Pentax have decided to use another chip in the MZ-D. >Theres no reason to automatically assume that it will be a different camera >and that it will use a chip smaller than 24x36. In fact, you can expect >otherwise. Pentax choose not to use the Phillips chip because it was too >expensive - in a short while other chip will exist that offer the same >performance but at a significant lower price. I was told that digital >Contax DON'T use the Phillips 6mpix chip that Pentax showed in their MZ-D >prototype (can anyone confirm this?). >Anyway, the bottom line is that there will be an MZ-D but with another chip >that's probably full frame. Expect it within a year. -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
