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**Michael J Davis**

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On Apr 7, 12:28 pm, wrote:
Let's for the moment we think "out of the box". If there is a product
which has the shape of either a 35 mm or 120 film cartridge, and you
can just load it into your old film camera. However, this product acts
like a digital "film", in which it will store images in digital
format, instead of into film, would you buy such a product?

Do a search on "Silicon Film". It's a lengthy saga, with little sign
of any real product despite a lot of calls for investors...

It's a nice idea, but has some *very* significant practical
difficulties, which is largely why digital backs are not made for the
35mm market.

There was such a thing proposed and got to prototype stage, IIRC, back
around 2000-1. Then I decided to sell my Leica M3 rather than to wait
for such a chimera camera.

Of course, Leica developed a digital camera back for the R series. - Is
it still available?

Mike

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