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Subject: [OM] digital cameras
From: Joseph <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 13:22:01 -0800 (PST)
>>The stated reason about NO OM Digital Camera is:  they feel the quality to be
>>obtained from using interchangeable lenses NOT designed for digital is greatly
>>inferior.  It has to do with how a CCD accepts light input, light rays must AL
>>be parallel since the sensor is like little buckets ( U ).  Nikon and Canon ge
>>around this by using an adapter plate to make the rays acceptable but sharpnes
>>suffers at the edges, especially with larger chips.

>Bullshit!   This sounds like a lot of marketing double-talk.  I for one 
>don't believe it.  Why would Nikon release their D1 with a standard Nikon 
>AF mount?  Why would Kodak make their $20-30,000 digital cameras using Fxx 
>and EOS bodies that use standard Nikon and Canon lenses?

Perhaps because they want to sell it to people who own lens collections
using that mount?

Joseph



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