It was cost, Phillips jacked the cost up on the sensor seriously while not delivering on IQ claims at anything other than base ISO. So a poor quality at high cost sensor killed the MZ-D as well as the Contax N Digital (along with Contax itself).
-Adam On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:47 PM, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Y'all probably already knew this ... I may have forgotten it. > > Reading an article on full-frame DSLRs today, and it said the *FIRST* FF > DSLR was Pentax's MZ-D 6MP prototype shown at Photokina and PMA in 2001. > > First PRODUCTION FF DSLR was the Contax N Digital, using the same Phillips > CCD image chip. > > Pentax canceled the project due to "cost", but the article suggested it > might have been due more to poor image quality that didn't meet Pentax's > standards. > > Don't really mean nothin', but it IS Pentax related. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
