P3D Re: One more new product

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:26 PM -0700 on 3/12/98, Lawrence W Kaufman wrote:


|A megapixel "film pack" (a cartridge shaped
|like a roll of 35 mm film) is in development
|by Imagek, the Costa Mesa, California based
|electronic imaging unit of Irvine Sensors Corp.
|The EFS-1 pack is a 1.3 million-pixel imaging
|and storage device that fits into a film cavity
|of a 35 mm camera. It is being billed as a way
|to convert any 35 mm camera immediately into
|a digital camera.
|

This is exciting news to me, assuming it's priced so as to
be competitive with the other 1.x million pixel systems (like
the Olympus). In fact, I'd welcome it on the basis that with
a limited resolution image (in comparision with traditional
film) what you really *need* is to be able to use zoom/tele
lenses to fill the image frame (for standard SLRs at least).

One slight cautionary note, though. I once took my Realist
down to the local camera shop (a real one, not a 1 hour
finisher) as I wanted to check the flash sync (old hands here
will remember extended discussions on this a couple of years ago).
It turned out that their "standard" 35mm sensor which fit onto the
film plane would NOT fit onto the Realist - the film channel 
was too restricted space wise.

THANKS

              Bob Wier
     mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   11:30 PM Thursday, March 12, 1998
   Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
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