Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Byron Rakitzis gently corrected my mistake: >The largest square that will fit in this circle will have a diagonal >of twice the radius, so the sides will measure > > sqrt((21.6mm*2)^2 / 2) ~= 30.5mm > >Well, 30x30 wouldn't be bad, but you would have to give up a bit >of the length on a 24x36mm frame. Doh! My bad. Actually, the best CCD size would be 30X40, then, permitting *either* a 30.5 x 30.5 mm square *or* variably rectangular aspect ratio, at the user's discretion. That would be darned cool. Thanks for catching my error. - -Alexey