Eastman Kodak Announces 35mm Digital Film

[Sirius Glass]

Happy April Fools Day

 

[Chan Tran]

This would be literally priceless for 35mm. Really, quite expensive. You know they make them for LF cameras. They are expensive.

PE

I think it's OK for a 24MP at $3000.

 

[ic-racer]

I am waiting for the next big breakthrough....to be able to shoot a film in my DSLR.

 

[AgX]

However, it is possible! I have heard the same thing, and having held a lot of sensors and circuitry in my hands, I know it would fit.

This would be literally priceless for 35mm. Really, quite expensive. You know they make them for LF cameras. They are expensive.

As I indicated that idea is more than 20 years old. Over some years different prototypes were presented. Over that the enterprice had to be reestablished and finally closed without bringing the product to market. And never a price tag was published as far as I know, though detailed market-introduction dates..
But I doubt the sale price was the real issue.

 

[Photo Engineer]

I saw the first sensors and cameras at EK. I was called in to the Physics Division where the R&D was being done, and I saw all of this. It was amazing. At that time, the camera was a tiny thing, but the supporting electronics occupied a push cart. Fun days. And, this was in the '80s, more than 20 years ago. It was quite secret at that time.

However, the idea was alive, but not brought to fruition. None of these at EK were really carried on, and look what happened!

PE

 

[Agulliver]

I think I've seen this April fool before....

The interesting thing here is that such a product is almost possible, we can imagine it based on technology we've already seen or handled. It's only a couple of steps away from things we're familiar with....but yeah it would be costly...full frame sensor et al.

Back in the 90s Praktica were working on a digital back for their BX20S film SLR...I thinik they had 1 mpegapixel working prototype but it never reached the market. If anyone actually could produce a "digital film" for 35mm cameras (and other formats) how would it interact with the camera's shutter and aperture settings...especially on manual cameras? Would one tell the "digital film" to emulate ISO 200, for example, and it would somehow just know when you pressed the shutter? How would it handle wind-on? Interesting concept but not at all something that could fit all cameras.

 

[AgX]

Back in the 90s Praktica were working on a digital back for their BX20S film SLR...

I think you mix up things.
In the 90s a digital Praktica BX 20S was developed but not finished. At about 2005 a digital back was claimed by Pentacon but never made.
(I got this from the net...)

 

[Agulliver]

I think you mix up things.
In the 90s a digital Praktica BX 20S was developed but not finished. At about 2005 a digital back was claimed by Pentacon but never made.
(I got this from the net...)

Perhaps there's a misunderstanding. We're saying the same thing Though it could be the digital back came a bit later than I remembered.

 

[AgX]

That digital back information later was stated by Pentacon to have been due to one single employee having given a wrong information. So to my understanding there never was such Praktica back.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

As I indicated that idea is more than 20 years old. Over some years different prototypes were presented. Over that the enterprice had to be reestablished and finally closed without bringing the product to market. And never a price tag was published as far as I know, though detailed market-introduction dates..
But I doubt the sale price was the real issue.

I remember seeing a prototype that had a sensor on a stiff plastic strip mounted to a film cartrige-size elelectronic container. It waqs to sell for about $1200 when you could buy a Nikon D70 for ar less with better image quality. Moreover, you still have the issue of not having a screen in a film SLR. This eliminates one big benefit of digital capture.

 

[Cholentpot]

So the D in D-76 stands for Digital? Cool, cool.

 

[AgX]

I remember seeing a prototype that had a sensor on a stiff plastic strip mounted to a film cartrige-size elelectronic container. It waqs to sell for about $1200 when you could buy a Nikon D70 for ar less with better image quality. Moreover, you still have the issue of not having a screen in a film SLR. This eliminates one big benefit of digital capture.

Thank you for stating a price.

There were different models.
The early model needed a docking station to transfer the content and make it visible, the later model included a control unit with LCD colour-screen mounted under a SLR.