Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To me the issue is how much to they want to develop one. How much? And I don't feel like they do. I think the owner of the company may not have had a lot of luck carrying around his M8 and trying to get shots with and and gave up. I don't sense a commitment to Leicas history having heard his long speeches. I think as is indicated by the announcements he's looking for other ways for Leica to continue itself. And I think that's a mistake. I think a digital manual rangefinder camera full frame a Leica M an M9 would find quite a place in serious photography right along with Leicas new larger than full frame AF DSLR. And a digital R if that existed. Fashion photographers and serious photographers selling their cars to get one. And museums. And blood banks. The CIA. All kinds of nice people would want to pay 8 grand for one. I cant imaging they are R&D ing new sensor technology, not their field, on top of backing the new S system plus supposedly all the other stuff they claim their doing. No ones aloud to say anything which would annoy the marketing peoples idea of what needs to be said. And that is what needs to be said is what the public that minute needs to hear. Mark William Rabiner > From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at optonline.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:14:44 -0400 > To: <lug at leica-users.org> > Cc: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at optonline.net> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Full frame again! > > > On Apr 1, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Henning wrote: > >> Also, a >> scanning solution doesn't address the steep angle >> of incidence, except possibly to some degree by >> rotating the sensor strip as it moves across the >> frame. The mechanics of this would be a >> nightmare, and to have this go evenly across the >> sensor plane in 1/250 second > > > I tend to agree with most of your objections to the full frame > proposals except that a scanning sensor need only cover the frame in > 1/30 to 1/50 second. That's the speed the shutter slit moves in film > Leicas. Rotating the sensor strip would not be a problem at that slow > speed. Still a mechanical kludge however. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information