Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Analog vs. digital (long and barely OT)
From: Mike Quinn <mlquinn@san.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 22:33:22 -0700

That would be true if you placed the sensor in the film plane. If you placed
a second lens in the film plane and used it to magnify the image, you could
use a larger sensor array to capture the larger image behind the original
film plane.

Of course you'd probably be better off using a larger format camera with a
larger image area to start with.

Perhaps MF and LF cameras are the logical place to start high resolution
digital photography...

Mike Quinn

Austin Franklin wrote:

> Point is, the sensor spacing is the physical limitation
> in being able to get higher density CCDs that would work with your Lietz
> lenses, and capture (somewhat) the same image quality as your 35mm film
> can.