>>1252616They did work, Silicon Film was bragging about it and demonstrating it at the PMA in 2001.
However, it was pretty much destined to bankrupt; we had a little discussion about the idea at the last fair and came to the conclusion that every business owner contemplating this idea is going to either
— fail miserably, as the sensor is the most expensive part of a digital camera project and incorporating one in a film body deprives the user of pretty much any control over it, thus limiting its potential badly;
— start producing own digital cameras.