Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>This address is no longer valid. > >If what you were looking at was "IMAGEK" known as "I'm a geek" in the >industry, this is still vaporware. And if it ever does see the light of >day, the resolution of the saved images is extremely poor. Barely suitable >for happy snaps. Yes, I've seen many references to this device and I agree. Look below for the quoted article from YahooUK >Jim > > >At 10:35 AM 5/17/99 -0500, you wrote: >>http://www.yahoo.co.uk/headlines/19990519/newscien/927072060-2685059081.htm >>l >> >>If you ever wondered about a digital M cameraŠ >> >>or maybe even a LTM >> >>I find this very interesting! >> >>Henry Here is the content of the Yahoo article I referred to above: >>>>>begin quote Wednesday May 19, 1:01 AM Hybrid camera By Barry Fox PHOTOGRAPHERS have been slow to adopt digital cameras, as they don't want to discard the lenses and accessories that only fit their film-based cameras. Now Kodak has an answer: it is teaming up with chip maker Intel to produce a device that lets a normal stills camera take digital pictures. Intel holds a world patent (WO 99/ 12345) on a set of microchips that can be built into a combined image sensor and memory unit which slots into any 35-millimetre film camera. Images stored in the removable memory unit, which is shaped like a standard film cartridge, can be transferred to CD-ROM for permanent storage. Kodak's earlier CD-ROM picture storage system, Photo CD, has just been relaunched as Picture CD, supplying images in the standard JPEG format. The next step will be to integrate Picture CD with cameras that use the Intel technology. Intel promises "compelling new developments". Last year, the Californian company Imagek announced a device similar to Intel's (This Week, 7 March 1998, p 6). But Richard Burton, editor of Digital Photography magazine, says: "We have still not got our hands on one, or got a price. And there are still a lot of unanswered questions on how it will work." >>>>>end quote Maybe Kodak and Intel can do this and make it work. Henry