Digital BW, The Print

I've no desire to start another round of  "analogue versus
digital quality"  fighting but this may be of interest for
everyone who likes to keep his lenses till they can be used on a
suitable digital camera:

Dear Nikoninfo.com members,
the surprise is perfect - According to one of the biggest German
photo-magazine (Color Foto), Nikon will come out later this year
with a newly designed lens mount.
This new lens mount will be bigger to be able to use also a
fullsize chip appropriate. New lenses have to be designed too.
They will be obviously bigger and heavier and according to Color
Foto also significant more expensive :(
Reflecting this, Nikon seems to go the same direction as Contax
did it already a couple of years ago with its new N-System.
Contax announced on the RG webpage the stop of the production of
the ND. Although this is nothing special in the life cycle of
digital cameras after 12 months on the market, it confused many
costumers, since there was no further communication from Contax
to them. Contax also refused to give hints/information about new
Contax ND-models, but it is obvious, that there will be new
models in the future.
Time will tell whether the road of Nikon and Contax will be the
right direction or other roads will lead further. Leica spreads
rumours about a digital back for the R-System in 2004 - without
beeing specific when in 2004. Since this is still a long time any
information about it has to be taken with a grain of salt.
Olympus has choosen another alternative way with its new open
4/3rd system. Details will be released from Olympus on June 24th.
Yesterday we went online with our Olympus sistersite
http://www.olympusinfo.com and you will find more information
about this new 4/3rd system there.
We also offer now for Rollei fans a new home:
http://www.rolleiinfo.com. On both new forums, the photo gallery
is not yet finished, but we hope to do this over the next weeks.
Your Nikoninfo.com Team


Ernst