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

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Leica R-Digital Back
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:13:36 -0400

Oh, Austin, you do miss the point; it's a LEICA image, and that's always
worth waiting for, even if it means missing the decisive quarter minute.
:-)

B. D.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Austin
Franklin
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:26 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Leica R-Digital Back


> 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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