Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/10

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Subject: [Leica] RE: Re: Leica and the digital future
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:11:29 -0800

At 01:08 PM 3/10/00 -0500, Peter Jon White wrote:
>are we ever likely to see 24x36mm chips
>> sitting in the back
>> of our (by then) old 35mm cameras? I recall there was one American (?)
>> outfit who touted this idea and from whom we've heard very
>> little of late.
>
>Wasn't there mention in Shutterbug a while back about a drop-in device for
>35mm bodies? It sits in the film canister chamber and extends across the
>pressure plate (perhaps replacing the pressure plate?) and has full frame
>coverage.
>
>Peter Jon White

You can find this vaporware at  http://www.imagek.com/  pronounced "I'm a
geek". If one stops and simply thinks about the ramifications of this
device, one can quickly see that it is not a panacea.

Jim