By the time it was in any way viable as a technology, DSLRs had already
taken over the market. The original IIRC called Silicon Film had a 2.8x
crop factor, 1.3mp images were to be produced with the "cartridge"
having only enough memory to store ~64 images, and supported only
certain models of Canon and Nikon film cameras. Those limitations were
probably necessary to keep R&D and production costs down, but it always
seemed to me that the real market would have been in a device that would
work in more obscure cameras, the real fun here would be using it in a
Kodak Retina folding rangefinder, or a Voightlander Vito, or one of the
systems that had orphaned lenses from before the auto focus age. I'd
have loved to have a digital LX but when it was finally announced that
it would only support Canon and Nikon, I know I certainly lost interest.
On 2/8/2014 8:00 AM, Bipin Gupta wrote:
Sir, what happened to the Digital 35mm Casette?
I saw the 10 MP version on the net, and it looked very promising.
I too have the XZ-5, an ME Super and a Leica R5 - all moth balled. I
have been looking forward to the digital casette, so that I can take
them out and give them life once again.
Regards.
Bipin.
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