Originally posted by gofour3 Why would any film shooter want this? Those of us that shoot film do so because we like film, we do not dream about defacing our film bodies and turning them into a DSLR.
I hope Nikon invests millions in this and it flops. Pentax is smart enough to avoid this like the plague.
Phil.
A digital back for a camera which is intended to have a removable back, such as MX, could be used like old professionals used polaroid to test light and composition before doing their real shots that have the delay of full processing to see what they actually got. Digital back would give the instant check, then drop on a film back and get the film quality picture.
The paptent would not stop Pentax from doing the same idea. A digital back is just an idea and not a specific manner of doing anything. What would be covered inthe patent is some specific method of doing it. All it takes is someone to read the claims for the loopholes and then exploit those loopholes. Voila - a different way of achievign the same gross result - digital back for film SLR.