Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/01

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Subject: [Leica] Re: RE: digital vs film ...help
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 20:28:47 -0800

At 09:54 PM 2/1/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Jim,
>
>There was a quite involved thread on the Olympus mailing list I used to
>belong to several months ago.  The conclusion was just as you stated -- that
>digital imaging that would provide comprable resolution to a 36x24mm  film
>gate is quite a ways off.  Among reasons given were the HUGE size of the
>CCD array (about 50 megapixels) -- an almost zero count of dead pixels --
>dark current -- time to read out the CCD array -- storage -- etc.  This
>is assuming a cost to make it competitive with a comprable 35mm film
>based camera.
>
>Mark Hammons
> 

This is all absolutely correct. Thanks Mark.

Jim