Digital film cartridge.

mowog · 2010-09-28T20:05:00+0100

Many of you will remember the e-film insert that was under development, about ten years ago. I have mentioned it on this forum before. Basically, it was an idea for a sensor cartridge that would fit inside a 35mm film camera, occupying the space where the film would go, with a very thin sensor plate extending across the film gate. It never got off the ground because it was slow, only 1.3 megapixel, could only hold a few images and needed to be connected to a computer to download the content. It would also have been horribly expensive. Now... Technology has moved a long way forward since then. Perhaps now such a device could be made that had an FF sensor of say 5MP, a CF card slot and battery. Wouldn't it be great to be able to use our Spotmatics, KXs and LXs Digitally? - 'Course it would!. In fact, I would happily pay two to three hundred quid, for such a device. I think it's time a manufacturer looked again at this idea.

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greynolds999 greynolds999

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Posted 29/09/2010 - 13:03 Link

I have to disagree. I don't think you could sell the 'upgrade kit' for less than the cost of a K-x thereby putting off 99.999+% of photographers.

I think as an exercise it would be interesting, but the market would be tiny.

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Posted 29/09/2010 - 15:20 Link

greynolds999 wrote:
I have to disagree. I don't think you could sell the 'upgrade kit' for less than the cost of a K-x thereby putting off 99.999+% of photographers.

I think as an exercise it would be interesting, but the market would be tiny.

Agreed.

Too far from a shore.