Digital BW, The Print

Hi Claude,

Thanks for that post.

Do you have any idea if he makes one for the Rollei 6000 series?

I'm sitting on one 6000 outfit waiting for a "reasonably" priced 
digital back.

$25-30,000 is rich for my blood.

Thanks,

Scott


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, claudej1@a... 
wrote:
>  
> I have known Ken Boydston, owner of Megavision, since being part of 
his  
> mentor group back in 1998. He is one of the nicest, most modest 
engineers I  have 
> ever met. He INVENTED many of the things other companies have 
copied  since 
> 1983. He and I have shared the "bucket" analogy to describe  
sensors to novices 
> for many years. His latest thing is to put an OQO  miniature PC 
running 
> Windows on the back of his camera backs (you can even do  Photoshop 
on it). VERY 
> cool stuff. He has put together a few prototype backs  using the 
Kodak Square 
> sensor (16 MP).
>  
> I have not spoken to him in several months, but he didn't seem 
real  
> enthusiastic about the market prospects for a monochrome back. 
However, being  the 
> pioneer that he is, if anyone does it, it will probably be him. He 
has sold  his 
> FB backs for about $7-8,000 in either 6 or 11 MPx, so if it  were 
to go  to 16 
> or 22 Mpx for the purists on this board, I suspect they would be in 
the  
> $15,000 range. Just remember that you can do Infrared Captures with 
them also  AND 
> you have full spectrum resolution, so they are much sharper than 
the color  
> versions. I suspect having a single-shot monochrome sensor is like 
having 
> double  the well site count of a Bayer color one. So a 22 Mpx 
monochrome is like 
> having  44 in color. So a more affordable 11 MPx mono would be more 
like a 22 
> Mpx in  color. So don't give away those Medium Format cameras just 
yet.
>  
> Claude
>  
> In a message dated 7/9/2005 2:04:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:
> 
> Now to  pose a question I have been wondering about: if a sensor 
were 
> made  specifically for B&W, what would be changed?
> 
> 
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