Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/10

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Subject: [Leica] Re: RE: Re: Leica and the digital future
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:29:26 -0800

You should have ended with a smiley face  :-)  because the Imagek thing, or
anything similar, even if available, is not worth thinking about.

Jim


At 05:56 PM 3/10/00 -0700, John Collier wrote:
>If you scroll down their marketing survey to where they list types of
>cameras  used, there is no option to choose Leica. :-(
>
>John Collier
>
>> From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
>> 
>>> At 01:08 PM 3/10/00 -0500, Peter Jon White wrote:
>>> are we ever likely to see 24x36mm chips
>>> sitting in the back
>>> of our (by then) old 35mm cameras? I recall there was one American (?)
>>> outfit who touted this idea and from whom we've heard very
>>> little of late.
>>> 
>>> Wasn't there mention in Shutterbug a while back about a drop-in device for
>>> 35mm bodies? It sits in the film canister chamber and extends across the
>>> pressure plate (perhaps replacing the pressure plate?) and has full frame
>>> coverage.
>>> 
>> 
>> You can find this vaporware at  http://www.imagek.com/  pronounced "I'm a
>> geek". If one stops and simply thinks about the ramifications of this
>> device, one can quickly see that it is not a panacea.
>> 
>> Jim
>