Maybe slightly off topic, but I couldn't help when I read Mason Resnick's article on the bright new digital future:(posted 8970 days ago)He wrote: "A digital insert that will fit in any 35mm camera and record digital images is expected to hit the market in a few months;"
Actually, I first saw this in some journals at least two years ago (may even be more than two years, I'm not sure any more), and already then it was said to be ready for the market "in a few months". When I first read about that film cartidge with a CCD array, I immediately contacted the manufacturer (they called themselves Imagec) to get more details. In the beginning, this sounded really exciting: (I thought of using this thing in a spare camera for "visual notes" where no great quality is required. If you don't need them any more, you haven't wasted material, you just delete a few files.) Then came the answers of the manufacturer to my questions: Well, after all, it had turned out difficult to make this thing for any camera, because there are still significant differences between the models in the distances between the image window and the cartidge mouth. So they said they would make it "for the major modern models" (whatever that may mean). They promised to inform me "soon" when the thing was ready to hit the market. That was (at least) two years ago. I wonder if this is still the same manufacturer, and if "a few months" still means the same thing to them as it did before.