Just got hold of 4 of these SCITEX Leaf DCB II Live Cant find

I don't understand why people don't know how to use google
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SCITEX-Leaf-DCB-II-Live-back-on-Sinar-/250734731703

>>3137574
there could be up to a dollar worth of gold and copper in it

>Specifications:
Model: Leaf DCB II
Function: Three exposure colour or single exposure black & white
Sensor: 2048x2048 pixel thermo-electrically cooled to reduce noise
Mount: Hasselblad 500EL or 553ELX
Compatible Lighting: electronic flash/strobe, tungsten, daylight, HMI, flicker-free florescent, LED
Sensitivity: B&W- ISO 200; Colour ISO 25
Dynamic Range: greater than 11 f/stops at 14bit per colour; 16,384 grey levels
Sensor size: 31 × 31mm

wew lad

>>3137574
If I remember correctly, the first Leaf DCB was the first digital camera sensor ever. Obviously they can only be used in studios but these are what began our ascent into digital photography as we know it. Pretty cool, OP.

Worth <$300 and that's only for the novelty. If you could find somehow find software to recognize the files you would still have to get around the hurdle of it most likely using firewire.

I'd take one off your hands since I have a camera it'd be compatible with but it'd only be worth my while to pay for shipping.

>>3138155
>you would still have to get around the hurdle of it most likely using firewire

firewire if OP is lucky, this shit might even be SCSI

>>3137972
>Sensor: 2048x2048 pixel
so 2 1/2 - 3mp after cropping to a 2/3 4/3 ratio.
what would anyone do with all that resolution?

>>3137972
I wonder how it compares to a modern but standard (ie: not cooled) APS-C CMOS sensor.

>>3138216
Can't vouch for something this old, but if my experience with old Kodak CCDs is any indication, it should be visually comparable in an OOC state (though "OOC" is kind of a misnomer for these backs), maybe even with crisper color depending on color separation filters, but go horribly wrong when you try to push it.

But the elephant in the room is that it can't do color properly - it uses a three-shot process at ISO 25, think a digital version of Prokudin-Gorskii's camera, with most of the related inconveniences except darkroom.