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

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica R-Digital Back
From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:14:51 -0700
References: <004a01c33b56$42875ee0$0316fea9@ccasony01>

> > 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


you do realize that all this is a ploy, a feint... they really are trying
to convince us to keep using film.


Steve

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