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Re: [OM] E-1 4/3 vs. full sensor

Subject: Re: [OM] E-1 4/3 vs. full sensor
From: Skip Williams <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:41:51 -0500
Such a deal for only $12,000 for the budget, Kodak DCS Pro-Back 14mgpx.   
$29,000 for the 22mgpx Leaf Valeo.

I guess if you're making significant, incremental money from them, they make 
sense.  

Skip


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>Subject: Re: [OM] E-1 4/3 vs. full sensor
>   From: "Alienspecimen" <alienspecimen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>   Date: Fri,  5 Dec 2003 12:02:45 -0500 (EST)
>     To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>I just skimmed through the article, but in the latest issue of Outdoor 
>Photographer there is an interview with someone who uses a Hassy with a 
>digital back.
>One thing that was said impressed me (loosely off the top of my head)was the 
>comment that the back has such a wide range that he no longer need to wait for 
>the soft light early in the morning or later in the evening.  I think they 
>also stated how many times wider it gets compared to film.
>Boris
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>Original: 
>Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 08:30:38 -0500
>From: Skip Williams <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] E-1 4/3 vs. full sensor
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>Don't hold your breath for any digital system other than a traditional one.  
>The Contax AX was quite a beast of a camera and not very successful.  The 
>complex, ceramic machinery necessary to move the film plane exacted a heavy 
>toll on size and weight.  The supposed rationale was that Zeiss lens users 
>would do ANYTHING to keep using that glass.  The argument was proved wrong by 
>the market.
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>Leica is betting along similar lines with their R8/9 digital back.  I'll bet 
>that it becomes a very low production, low selling item, esp at their prices.
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>There may be some technology that will allow the use of non focusing lenses, 
>but it's certainly not in the mainstream right now and won't be for the next 
>5-10 years, IMO.  The market isn't going to support such a radical idea and no 
>company would fund R&D for such a device.  
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>The most we can hope for is incremental improvements in DSLR technology.
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>Skip
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>This hath not offended the king.
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>Sir Thomas More (at his execution)
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