I posted a big review of the history of eFilm, aka Silicon Film last year.
It's been a good concept, but the implementation obviously has had
problems.
This iteration is owned by yet another company. And they saw fit to update
the product so that it fully replaced the camera back, AND it has a 10
MgPixel, full-fram sensor, AND it takes CF-II cards, AND it has 2.5 FPS
capability...etc..etc. HA!! If they hadn't upped the quality of the basic
design, they would have had no product to shop to the VC's and investors.
The original design with it's 1-2 MgPixel sensor is now a joke.
My prediction? It will languish around for another 12-18 months and
eventually either die or be released for 1-2 bodies. It will then have so
many problems that it will be yanked or have another 12 months of teething
development. And it will be priced at $1000+
The one of many wrinkles is that since they replace the entire camera back,
they will have to replicate the joy-stick and buttonnized functions that
are present on many of the modern do-everything Canon and Nikon SLRs. That
isn't going to be easy. It was a bit cleaner when they just fit inside the
camera, but that obviously isn't feasible.
Again, I think it will die without ever coming to market.
There is ZERO, ZERO chance of it being offered for an OM body, IMO. Don't
even start to get up your hopes.
And do you think that the big-two are going to sit by and watch it retrofit
their older cameras and cannibalize sales of D60's, D100, D1x's, and EOS
1Ds's? I THINK NOT....They'd sooner drop the prices or up the features of
their products first, which they will do.
Whewww...
Skip
Original Message:
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From: William Clark wclark@xxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:45:16 -0400
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] That digital back is back!!!!!
Don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but the on and off again digital
back is here again!!!!!
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0209/02091903siliconfilmagain.asp
-Bill
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