Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/31
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At 10:15 PM -0700 8/30/02, Frank Filippone wrote:
>I hate to add fuel to this fire, but did it occur to us that if a P+S
>digital camera can make things work with short back focus lenses, a Leica
>camera could be designed using M lenses...... Look at the original
>Digilux.. the body is HALF the thickness of an M camera...... !
>
>We are getting treated as mushrooms.......
>
>Now, I have NO interest in actually owning one, as I believe the
>characteristics of the lenses are far superior to the sigital medium, but
>for Pete's sake..... we need to use logic and reason, not BS to figure this
>all out......
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net
You only used logic to a point; you forgot the 'sensor size'.
The point is, that the short back focus _combined with the the
'large' 24x36mm film surface_ leads to very sharp incident angles for
the light. A short back focus is no problem if the sensor size is
correspondingly small, which it is for digital P&S cameras. This is a
serious, and as yet unsurmountable problem that definitely makes the
use of Leica rangefinders much more difficult than SLR's for digital
purposes.
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