But unfortunately the specs were really low in modern terms. Everything could be neatly stacked like so: You could slide the eFilm into the ePort to plug into your computer or you could slide them into the eBox to offload the images to a CF card. The system had 3 parts: The eFilm, the ebox and the eport. It would require no modification to the original camera and you could use either film or digital as you please. It was not a digital back like the Kodak’s or Mamiya’s but a film replacement. In 2001 when Silicon Film introduced the EFS-1 the technology was amazing: A digital film that can go inside a film camera. Quite the bulk, no? Medium Format users knows what digital backs are, as the back of many medium format cameras like Mamiya can be removed to put in something else. In the early days of Digital, companies like Kodak made Digital backs to popular cameras like the Nikon N90s: Click for Image Source One is a photosensitive film, the other a photosensitive sensor. Thinking about it, the biggest difference between a Digital Camera and a Film camera is simply the capturing method. Little did I know that a company called “Silcon Film” worked on exactly that technology. Hen I bought my Nikon SLR a while ago (in the ear of Dinosaurs), I always thought it would be cool if you could put in a digital sensor in as a film.
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