But they need a smaller form factor than the dummy they showed at
Photokina, and if they could stuff a 1MP eye-level viewer and 14MP
foveon picture in.....
tOM
On Wednesday, October 02, 2002 at 17:08, W.Xato
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] Olydak reprise" saying:
> <<<<Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:31:05 -0400
> From: "tOM Trottier" <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [OM] Olydak reprise
>
> http://www.steves-digicams.com/smp/09292002.html>>>>
>
> There are a couple of reasons that the 4/3 system
> makes economic sense. For one the costs to produce
> 35mm full frame CCDs or CMOSes goes up at a faster
> rate than just the pixel count (perhaps exponentially)
> and secondly, the ability to produce extreme telephoto
> of a usuable size is much more easily done for a
> smaller format size. It is technologically easier to
> increase the pixel count of a small CCD rather than a
> larger CCD (or so I conjecture).
>
> Good luck to Olympus!!
>
> Warren
>
>
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