Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/25

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Leica R-Digital Back
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:26:12 -0400

> http://www.leica-camera.com/produkte/rsystem/digitalmodul/index.html

Thanks for the link!  A couple of notes.  One, they don't plan on having it
in production until the END of next year, some 18 months away!  A LOT is
going to change between now and then.

Second, is they claim it only uses SD cards, which don't hold much...512MB
max right now, and I'm not sure how extensible they are.  SD cards are also
rather slow...2MB/second for write speed.  For a 10M pixel image, at 24
bits/pixel (3 colors x 8 bits/color)...that's 30M bytes or 15 seconds for
one raw image!

Austin

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