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

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Subject: [Leica] 6x17 lust
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat Dec 27 13:29:53 2008

At the huge PHOTO PLUS EXPO in late October at the Jacob Javits Center in
New York City  which I went to for the first time there was a guy walking
around with a 6x12 camera he built himself. And a cowboy hat I think.
By far the highlight of the occasion for me.
He could not go anywhere without drawing a crowd.


I walked into Photokina 0ct 06 with a Brownie Hawkeye around my neck.
No one was amused.

Mark William Rabiner



> From: Lottermoser George <imagist3@mac.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:22:05 -0600
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [Leica] 6x17 lust
> 
> Did the BigShot ever make it into production?
> It seemed always about to appear.
> 
> Fond regards,
> George
> 
> george@imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 27, 2008, at 9:05 AM, lindnich@tesco.net wrote:
> 
>> 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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Replies: Reply from photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest) ([Leica] 6x17 lust)
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