Call me a skeptic or, maybe, a curmudgeon but I think the whole
idea was to suck in some venture capital and then seek
protection in bankruptcy in order to keep the money.
It was fairly obvious to folks reasonably knowledgeable about
film camera construction that this was pretty much doomed from
the initial concept. It sounded good but it was nowhere near as
universally applicable to cameras as they wanted us to believe.
Len
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Mark Roberts
> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 8:46 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Silicon Film Suspends Operations
>
>
> Mike Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Mick wrote:
> >
> >> It's a shame to see a good idea go down the pan. I
> wonder if somebody else
> >> might buy the patents and take it forward.
> >
> >
> >What exactly was Silicon Film's idea? Weren't they
> the people who wanted to
> >make a digital CCD that you could insert into an
> existing 35mm camera? Or am
> >I confusing them with somebody else?
>
> You have it correctly. Low resolution as I recall
> (1.5 megapixels?), low storage
> capacity and high price pretty much doomed them.
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