Dilemma regarding Digital vs. Film

In article ,
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
(Philip Homburg) writes:

In article ,
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Wally writes:

3. Is it reasonable to wait (and hope) for a digital databack that
will turn this camera into a high end digital camera?

My guess: It's not going to happen. *Nobody* has done that for a
35mm body yet.

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.

Howmany DSLRs do you know with removable finders?

Um, 3 or 4 I think.

Which ones?

Furthermore, it would have to incorporate a full-frame sensor, or else
the viewfinder would be wrong, making it completely unsaleable in the
current market. Full-frame sensors are still exotic, expensive,
high-end items.

Again not true.

What's not true about it?

'It would have to incorporate a full-frame sensor'.

Um, the rapid techonology change seems to me to argue *for*
replaceable backs on standard bodies and *against* specialized
bodies.

I doubt it. You can't do special cameras like the D2H if you are stuck
with older mirror/shutter mechanisms.

For the price of a 1Ds it should be easy to include a body for free.
Large cameras with an integrated motor-drive (such as an F5) are not the
ideal cameras for digital backs.

Seperate backs will be a good marketing strategy when the market is close
the saturation. When people buy your cameras as fast as you can produce
them, it is not a good strategy.



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