Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/08

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Subject: [Leica] New R Solution?
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 18:00:15 +1000
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George I think that the larger lens flange distance of the S2 body design
would defeat you there. That and the 18,600 EURO price tag for the current
body

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 8 September 2010 16:47, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> 
wrote:

> best idea yet, George.
> IMO
>
> On 7 Sep, 2010, at 23:50, George Lottermoser wrote:
>
> > How about an SR?
> >
> > A scaled down S2.
> > An S2 with a 24x36 sensor
> > (or 28x38 which I believe all R lenses would cover pretty damn well)
> > and with an R lens mount.
> >
> > The basic body tooling exists.
> > Minor adjustments for plane of focus (sensor) to lens mount distances.
> > The larger ground glass with smaller frame lines would be wonderful.
> > Basic electronics exist.
> >
> > ;~)
> >
> > Regards,
> > George Lottermoser
> > george at imagist.com
> > http://www.imagist.com
> > http://www.imagist.com/blog
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> >
>
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