Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]June 2000! Hell, I'll probably be dead by then! Sheesh! Glad I got the Digilux! Dan - -----Original Message----- From: Alex Hurst <corkflor@iol.ie> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 4:35 AM Subject: [Leica] Electronic film >Hi LUGnuts. > >Tought you might be interested in the following exchange with Lynn O'Mara, >PR lady for Irvine Sensors. Their subsidiary, IMAGEK, is developing the >EFS-1 unit as a digital film substitute. > >>Alex - >>Just to let you know they did have the EFS-1 there ( a developmental >>prototype unit with a .8 megapixel imager), and it did work. They also had >>quite a few pictures on display that they've taken with that unit. >> >>Lynn O'Mara >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Alex Hurst [SMTP:corkflor@iol.ie] >>Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 6:06 AM >>To: lomara@irvine-sensors.com >>Subject: IMAGEK EFS-1 >> >>Hi Lynn. >> >>This new product has been the subject of considerable discussion on both >>the Nikon and Leica camera groups out here in cyberspace. >> >>Most comment seems to revolve around the premise that this idea has been >>promoted for about two or three years with no sign of a working prototype. >>"The equivalent of computer vapourware" was one typical comment. > >'There' was the Irvine stockholders meeting. > >And a .8 megapixel prototype definitely ain't the same as a developed >full-bore pre-production model. Maybe June 2000.... :-) > >Slan > >Alex > >Alex Hurst >Waterfall >Nr. Cork >Ireland > >Tel: +353 21 543 328 (H) > +353 21 270 907 (W) > >Fax: +353 21 271 248 >email: corkflor@iol.ie >Home website: http://homepages.iol.ie/~corkflor/ >Business website: http://www.flowerlink.com/corkflorists > >