P3D Re: The future (digital vs. film)

[Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Nikon D1 isn't one of those "converted" cameras.  It's 
a new (Digital) camera "from scratch" that takes Nikon F
lenses and can take full-resolution (2.7 Megapixels) pictures
at 5 frames per second.  It's also tremendously cheaper than
those converted F5's.

Mike K.

Brian Reynolds wrote:

> The D1 (if it's the one I'm thinking of) is bascially a Nikon F5 with
> a CCD back, a large battery pack, and a hard disk.  Kodak (with their
> DSC cameras), and later Nikon and Canon, has been making these
> cameras, or ones like them, for a number of years.  They are more
> expensive than their film counterparts, heavier, and still have lower
> image quality than film.  They were originally marketed to the AP and
> UPI wire services.  One of the services used them for a while and then
> switched back to film.
> 
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