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Subject: [OM] Re: Next E-x?
From: "khen lim" <castanet.xiosnetworks@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:44:08 +0800
AG are there any remnant write-ups on the technology or the company on the
net? I'd like to follow through if they were available. Thanks.

K.

On 31/08/06, AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Some time ago I came across a company that was developing
> > digital backs for variety of film cameras...
>
> SiliconFilm
>
> Dead as a doorknob.  Underfunded, poorly managed and misled into
> thinking that 2/3" sensor area was going to satisfy the 35mm
> user crowd.  I was in contact with them quite a bit during the
> PD and alpha testing phase and it became obvious that they were
> clueless.
>
> Another factor which killed them was that they were developing
> it as a CMOS technology prior to Canon making CMOS chic.
>
> The idea that they could do it with a film canister was flawed.
> They couldn't stuff enough brains and storage into it.  Had they
> done a "film back" instead, it would have worked.
>
> AG
>
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