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At 10:11 +0100 2001-10-24, DENIS EDWINBEECH BATES wrote: >A couple of years ago there was news of a digital attachment for an SLR >camera - I think the idea was that it slipped inside the camera, and >consisted of a thin CCD which took the place of the film being exposed, and >electronics which lived attached to the CCD, in place of the normal film >casette. >Has this come on the market, and if so would it be suitable? It's made by Silicon Film (http://www.siliconfilm.com/) and it sounded like a great idea for those with certain models of Canon or Nikon cameras. However, they have had production problems (by Sept 15th it was still not available), the announced pixel resolution is very low (1280 x 1024), and the price, $649, would today give you a good stand-alone camera with better resolution. Might be good if you want to use your old camera for both film and digital images, but why not double with a decent digital camera instead? I fear they are on the losing side. Stefan -- Stefan Bengtson Senior Curator (invertebrate fossils) Swedish Museum of Natural History Department of Palaeozoology Box 50007 SE-104 05 Stockholm Sweden tel. +46-8 5195 4220 +46-8 732 5218 (home) fax +46-8 5195 4184 e-mail Stefan.Bengtson@nrm.se
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