At 12:00 AM -0800 3/11/00, Phillip Franklin <pfranklin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Your analysis is correct. I think that Olympus is just side
stepping the issue of getting
some type of professional quality system on the market. I'm sure
they see more
profitability in their consumer products such as the 2500. But if
you are a pro
sports/action photographer those consumer digitals wont cut it. I'm
also into video and
have seen Canon use their EOS lenses on their prosumer and semipro
video camcorders. They
did this on a couple of very popular Hi8 systems several years ago
and are now doing this on
their highly acclaimed XL-1 camera. And everyone in the video
industry has known for 15 or
more years that field of view is a much more difficult problem when
using a ccd capture
device.
http://www.kodak.com/cgi-bin/webCatalog.pl?product=KODAK+KAF+Blue+Plus
+Color+Series+Image+Sensors
At this point, if I were an electronics engineer with spare weekends,
I would just call Kodak for a few dozen of their CCD sensors (now
available for external sale) along with the appropriate A/D folks,
aquire a similar number of surplus Oly backs (possibly recordata for
ease of electrical connection) and go to town.
It certainly sounds like most of the people on this list would be waiting in
line for the result (If I were an engineer capable of doing this, which of
course I'm not -- anyone know one?)
paul
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