On 27 Mar 2009, at 10:31, Joe Bauman wrote:
I am wondering if you could get the Schmidt camera to hold a chip instead of film .... Not to put down your film work at all, but it would be so much faster and you wouldn't need to worry about reciprocity failure with color film.
Where's the fun in that? :) But seriously, I have seen on another list that some folks are trying to find a way to use CCD chips in their Schmidt cameras. And if they can pull it off I might consider it but I guess it's like I enjoy flying a 1958 airplane, jumping my 1965 parachute and riding my 1972 motorcycle (and would still like to find a safe way to make a Daguerreotype of the Moon). I'm just an old guy that like old technology (we'll except for my iMac and iPod). Nostalgia, maybe? 'Course now I have to decide between Tri-X and Tmax 400 (quite a debate about that on line). patrick the old timer