[geeks] WTB: digital camera

[Brian Hechinger]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:54:21AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> 
> combination of the two.  While the idea of a 35mm CCD is appealing (ooh,
> 10k res. pics. drool), they either can't be made, or if they could be,
> they are too expensive and hard to make.  I mean, how many 35mm chips have
> you seen in recent years?  35mm is larger than a pentium, P2, 286, etc.

my sister went to RIT for photography.  they had a digital back to one of them
funny camers you look down into from the top.  like $15,000 camera or something.
anyway, the digital back that it had was one giant CCD.  maybe the tile multiple
CCDs, i'm not real sure, but the digital back cost $45,000 so it coulda been
anything at all. :)

-brian