I have decided to wait for a short time longer.
I was told - by Olympus people present on a computer fair here in
Holland - that on the next Photokina, still 10 months to go, a new
Olympus digital SLR camera will be presented containing a CCD chip
with a width of about 35mm - just like our old film size...
I think that this will be the right thing to start with: our lenses
will suddenly have the right focal lengths for digital work. If the
resolution and other optical qualifications will do, I don't know.
And of course wether we can afford it is quite another thing...
Frank van Lindert
Utrecht NL.
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:30:28 -0600, "Tom Scales"
<tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I've thought the same thing and was willing to buy a cheap digital camera
>for parts, but have no clue where to even start. It would take some pretty
>creative machining to get the right parts. The key would be the focus
>point, wouldn't it? Could we assume it has to be in the same place as the
>35mm film plane? Seems like you could take the sensor and replace the
>pressure plate. Route the connections out the back to a 'box' on the back
>of the camera. Maybe even gut a Winder and put everything in it?
>
>Tom
>
>> C'mon people, it can't be beyond the technical genius of people here to
>> build a Digital Back for the OM range ? If we all pooled our knowledge ?
>> (Ok, so I'm sitting around bored now I'm redundant !)
>>
>> But seriously, after my email regarding CCD's the other day I received a
>> VERY detailed, very technical response from Tim Hughes (I think he sent it
>> here too). I thought I knew a bit about CCD's, but he knows WAY more !!
>> With all our combined knowledge, surely we could come up with something ?
>I
>> know it would be difficult with most of you being "Stateside", but I for
>one
>> would be interested / willing to help out as necessary with such a venture
>> ...
>>
>> If Olympus themselves aren't going to do it, then maybe someone with the
>> necessary vision should (ie all of us !).
>>
>> Just a thought. Crazy I'm sure, but there you go.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>
>
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