Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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