HA!
Silicon Film, aka eFilm, took millions and millions of venture capital and
pissed it down the drain. There were many rumours that the company never
intended to produce a product and just milked the investors, trickling out
prototypes for years while they squirreled the money away somewhere.
In the end, it was a product that was doomed from the start. By the time they
got "close" to market with their vaunted 1.3 MP sensor, the market had moved to
3MP cameras.
As you can see, I have exceedingly little faith that this product ever had a
chance.
Skip
----- Original Message ---------------
Subject: [OM] Re: Why no digital backs for existing 35mm SLRs?
From: Andrew McPhee <macca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:38:35 +1100
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Here's one...not sure how advanced the development is though.
>
>"Silicon Film Inc. is uniquely positioned for success based upon its
>development of a first-of-it's-kind technology that enables a conventional
>35mm single lens reflex (SLR) camera to capture, store, and transfer
>digital images without any modification to the camera."
>
>Siliconfilm
>http://www.side.com/AboutUs.html
>
>Andrew McPhee
>
>
>
>At 09:34 PM 22/02/2005 -0600, Curt wrote:
>
>>Inquiring minds would like to know... what are the technical reasons why
>>nobody has come out with digital imaging backs for existing 35mm manual
>>focus SLR bodies?
>
>
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