This subject keeps cropping up in the "Imaging Resource Discussion" forum, the last time as recently as a couple of days ago.(posted 8970 days ago)Personally, I'm sick of this company tanatlising us with what seems like a good idea, and perpetually failing to deliver on the promise. I've held off buying a digital camera on the strength of this moonshine, but I'm not one of the people you can fool all the time.
It strikes me that there's one technical difficulty that seems pretty insurmountable, and that's the question of aligning the CCD with the film plane. Conventional CCD arrays are quite thick devices, hermetically sealed behind a thin piece of optical glass. Now obviously if you just stick one of these up against the gate of a 35mm camera you're not going to get it lying in the focal plane. Taking the glass away and exposing the bare CCD doesn't seem to be an option, the smallest scratch would be instant death to it, and atmospheric contamination would almost certainly be a slow death. What I'm saying is: I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this device to appear on the market.