Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/20

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: Hasselblad
From: jcb at visualimpressions.com (JCB)
Date: Wed Oct 20 17:19:53 2004
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At 03:39 PM 10/20/2004, Mark Rabiner wrote:


>If Hasselblad with Imacon cant come out with an affordable digital back for
>it's existing system someone else shortly will.


The problem is that the technology is changing daily. The digital companies 
can hardly keep up with it. Last week it was 16mp backs, now it's 22mp 
backs. They are pouring just gobs of cash into R&D and are moving forward 
as fast as possible. If they don't, they'll get overrun. This keeps the 
price high since they are always marketing and selling the latest back and 
the next back, and not really looking back. So until the technology hits a 
wall, where they cannot get any more MPs and the sensor is full frame and 
the sensor yield is good enough so that the wholesale price of the big 
sensor is less than $10,000, then you might see a "reasonably" priced MF 
digital back.

Don't hold your breath...

:-)

JB 


Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Re: Re: Hasselblad)
In reply to: Message from ruben at rhodos.dk (Ruben) ([Leica] Re: Hasselblad)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Re: Hasselblad)