[HUG ] Re: Biogons and digital backs

It is not the price of the sensor that is important for the price of a digital 
back.
Sensors are only a fraction of the total cost of a digital back.
I guess a full size sensor would not cost more than 600USD of ordered in 
quantities.
Other problems will make a full size back for MF expensive.
Power needed to feed the electronics will go up considerably. 
That makes large capacity batteries necessary. 
Just one ot the problems that are often overlooked. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard Schiff 
  To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 9:13 PM
  Subject: [HUG ] Biogons and digital backs


  Digital or not... the SWC's 38mm Biogon can probably still beat the pants off 
any wide angle lens ever made. 
   
   I think the there would be a market for a tech start-up to make a Hasselblad 
specific Digital back to work with and 500/swc series body.  I know the chips 
are out there.  5 years ago I held in my hand a CMOS detector that measure 5" 
square.  It was comprised of four  2.5"  CMOS detector plates joined together.  
It was a high-gane photographic detector  for the Keck telescope in Hawaii.  If 
that plate  was operation 5 years ago then the technology is WAY beyond that 
now.  producing a 2-1/4 X 2-1/4 full frame detector that could sell for less 
than $1,000 should be well within reason today.  If Hasselblad or leaf won't do 
it then someone should

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