In article CmsCc.3710$rh.118@okepread02,
Skip M wrote:

"Philip Homburg" wrote in message
q.phicoh.net...


You mean that all those Kodak backs for the 801, F90, F5 (and the one
for
the F3) are just fiction?

Yep. Or at least I've never heard them mentioned by anybody. More
info?

Go to the Kodak web site and look for obsolete digital cameras. F90 based
cameras are the DCS 410, 420, and 460. I think the 660 and 760 are based
on
the F5. There is also a whole series based on Canon cameras, and there is
a 3xx serie based on a Nikon APS camera.


All of the cameras you mention were just that, complete camera bodies based
on those film bodies. They had a clump on the bottom, in place of the power
booster that held all of the digital circuitry. None of that was available
as an add-on.

You can remove the digital back and replace it with a regular film back.
It is simply an add on. The fact that it made economic sense to sell
those things including the body doesn't change the fact that from a
technical point of view, it is simply a digital back for an existing
camera.

It mainly proves that there are no technical reasons why you can't build
digital backs for existing cameras. It is just the most manufactures think
that it doesn't make economic sense (at the moment).



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