Digital Film / Silicon Film(tm) - for real ?

Well, not the (tm) version but take a look at this:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0306/03...adigitalr9.asp

From dpreview:

"Leica has today announced the development of a Digital Module for the Leica
R8 & R9. This new module has a ten megapixel Kodak sensor and has been
developed in association with Imacon. The module is made up of two parts, a
digital back which cliips onto the rear of the camera and a power unit which
fits on the base. The digital back has a ten megapixel Kodak sensor which
produces a FOV crop of 1.37x and has a sensitivity of ISO 100 to 800. Image
formats will include RAW (Imacon 3F), storage by SD card."

Pop along to dpreview for the full Leica Press Release.

KC




Ken Chandler

If that costs less than $20,000 I'll be surprised!
JT

"Ken Chandler" <news@_remove_.kenchandler.com> wrote in message
news:3efabf0e$0$30823$(E-Mail Removed) u...
> Well, not the (tm) version but take a look at this:
>
> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0306/03...adigitalr9.asp
>
> From dpreview:
>
> "Leica has today announced the development of a Digital Module for the
Leica
> R8 & R9. This new module has a ten megapixel Kodak sensor and has been
> developed in association with Imacon. The module is made up of two parts,
a
> digital back which cliips onto the rear of the camera and a power unit
which
> fits on the base. The digital back has a ten megapixel Kodak sensor which
> produces a FOV crop of 1.37x and has a sensitivity of ISO 100 to 800.
Image
> formats will include RAW (Imacon 3F), storage by SD card."
>
> Pop along to dpreview for the full Leica Press Release.
>
> KC
>
>

"Auspics" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> "Ken Chandler" <news@_remove_.kenchandler.com> wrote:
> > Well, not the (tm) version but take a look at this:
> >
> > http://www.dpreview.com/news/0306/03...adigitalr9.asp
> >
[snips]
>
> If that costs less than $20,000 I'll be surprised!
> JT

from the article:
"The planned non-binding price recommendation for the LEICA DIGITAL-MODULE-R
in Germany is to 4,500 Euro."

At today's prices that's around AUD$7,700. Still, it's a while off yet but
if they ask >AU$20K I think there will be a lot more suprised people than if
it's under $20K.

KC