If it could hold 24 or 36 exposures in memory and had some sort of
USABLE interface (i.e., would run in OS/2, Win3.1, Mac in addition to
whatever Bill Gates' latest whiz bang trainwreck, and stored in jpg),
I'd probably pay roughly as much as a good used body - $200-300. Much
more than that, and I'd just buy a full blown digital camera with all
the bells and whistles.
A friend of mine recently got a couple of digitals to use in his job.
They're neat toys, and I'd love to have one for dumping snapshots on
my web page. But I can't see digital replacing film any time soon.
BBB
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:03:44 -0600, Kenneth Sloan wrote:
>Just a random thought - what would the market be, and what is the
>feasibility of, a "digital back" which converted a classic SLR to a
>digital camera?
>
>Clearly, the form factor is all wrong for systems based on floppy disks,
>and some of the glitzy controls on current digital cameras would disapper
>- but it would make for an interesting beast, no?
>
>Can't be any harder than designing and producing a "Polaroid back".
>
>How much would *you* pay for one?
>
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>University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
>Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/sloan/
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