On 10 Feb 2014, at 21:13, "John" <johnsess...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> On 2/10/2014 3:49 PM, Brian Walters wrote: >> Quoting "P.J. Alling" <webstertwenty...@gmail.com>: >> >>> 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. >> >> >> >> There was a recent attempt to resurrect the digital film cartridge. The >> 'Digipod' was to be developed via Crowd Funding but it only managed to >> reach 15,000GBP of its 199,000GBP target. >> >> So it's probably dead in the water too. Pity. It could have been fun. >> >> http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/digipodCheers > > "The page you are looking for is no longer available or has been moved." >
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