On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:47 PM, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Y'all probably already knew this ... I may have forgotten it. > > Reading an article on full-frame DSLRs today, and it said the *FIRST* FF > DSLR was Pentax's MZ-D 6MP prototype shown at Photokina and PMA in 2001. > > First PRODUCTION FF DSLR was the Contax N Digital, using the same Phillips > CCD image chip. > > Pentax canceled the project due to "cost", but the article suggested it > might have been due more to poor image quality that didn't meet Pentax's > standards. > > Don't really mean nothin', but it IS Pentax related.
Kind of the opposite of Pentax' claim that the Spotmatic was the first "commercially viable" ttl metering slr. No matter how you look at it, Topcon brought it to market first, but theirs didn't sell well, and the Spottie (as we all know) was a sold pretty decently. ;-) There were a few reasons why the Topcon didn't sell well, including the need to dial the maximum f-stop of the lens into the body each time lenses were changed - a somewhat cumbersome procedure that, if forgotten, produced badly exposed photos. So, in reality: The MZ-D wasn't the first FF digital, because it was never produced. The Spottie wasn't the first ttl metering slr because it wasn't. But I still love Pentax. ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
