Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/27

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Subject: [Leica] 6x17 lust
From: lindnich at tesco.net (lindnich@tesco.net)
Date: Sat Dec 27 07:04:47 2008
References: <7ac27f4f0812261510p77f7791ak7a5d6417057cdc52@mail.gmail.com> <C57B9802.472AD%mark@rabinergroup.com>
 
There was once the bigshot: http://www.epi-centre.com/reports/9604cs.html
BWs Gordon

Saturday, December 27, 2008, 1:29:54 PM, you wrote:

MR> Any 2 and a 1/4 square camera a Rolleiflex or old Hasselblad would be 
twice
MR> the frame size of the S2 only shooting film instead of just a capture 
area.

MR> There does not seem to be a medium format system like the traditional
MR> Hasselblad in which a digital back you'd get for it is very close at all 
to
MR> 2 1/4 square. Though some are  hyped as "full frame" digital. Referring 
to
MR> full frame 645 not 6x6. And not even that.
MR> 6x6 =  2 and a 1/4 square
MR> Its 6 cm

MR> Mark William Rabiner
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