Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/30
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What I'd like to see is an industry-standard sensor/electronics interface
so that a Kodak or Dalsa or Sony sensor/electronics package could be popped
into a Leica or Nikon or Sony or Canon, much as 35mm film dimensions,
perforations and cassettes were standardized many many years ago so that
Kodak or Agfa or Fuji film could be used in any camera that supported the
standard.
Doug Herr
Of course, but that just makes too much sense. For the foreseeable future
everybody is going to go it alone, and nobody is going to want to be stuck
with the 'Betamax' of digital photography.
Interesting to learn that Edison set the 35mm standard, with 4 perfs per
motion picture frame, in 18945-95, just a few years after the development of
flexible film (1887). After the emergence of 35mm still photo Kodak first
put out pre-loaded cassettes, designed to fit the Contax, Leica, and Retina
in 1934.