New E-Film,any good ??

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Recently i saw a new product : e-film by Silicon film technologies It supposed to be able to turn your slr camera into a digital camera by replacing a normal film roll by a kind of cassette. The manufactor says it will only be available for the high end models in the beginning, but in the near future for the more common models.

Has anybody worked with this devise yet ? How does it perform ?

eric

-- Eric (ejkrijt@hotmail.com), March 08, 2000

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By the way...here is the adress : www.siliconfilm.com

-- eric (ejkrijt@hotmail.com), March 08, 2000.

I perused the site.
Ok - kinda neat - but a word of caution! The image area covered by the CCD element is exasperatingly small compared to the original 35mm frame. While it is well known that affordable ccd technology will result in a smaller frame area - this is rediculous and unuseable (IMHO).
Here is their frame area comparison: (this is not deep-linked to their site).


Just eyeballing ... it looks to turns your 50mm Lens into about a 135mm equivilent. That means I'd need about a 20mm for a normal lens - and an equivelent rectilinear wide-angle lens would cost more than a Nikon D1 digital.
Really Cool Idea - but it's like feeding turnips to a cat if the frame area isn't increased or managed better.
Also - considering when they plan to launch - Summer 2000 - it's 1.3 megapixels could be bottled as a sleep-aid.
It strikes me as Venture Capital gone awry.

Des

-- Dan Desjardins (dan.desjardins@avstarnews.com), March 08, 2000.

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