Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/26

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Subject: RE: [Leica] R8/R9 Digital Back announced
From: "Kit McChesney | acmefoto" <kitmc@acmefoto.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:28:33 -0600

Maybe you'd better ask Austin about this. He seems to know more about what
is possible, and what isn't, in this realm. I'm only a merchant, not an
engineer.

Kit

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jim
McIntyre
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:13 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] R8/R9 Digital Back announced


Ok, I'd like some clarification. The consensus seems to be the M lenses are
not suited to fit a digital body because of physics, angle of incidence or
whatever.

Now I realize that some of this will be buried in the archive, but I'm
lazy...I'd rather someone tell me again. ;-)

If the M camera can mount an M lense, and focus on the film plane, then it
seems logical that that same film plane can be a digital sensor. Am I in
deep space on this?

Kit, are you being coy or do you know something?

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Kit McChesney | acmefoto" <kitmc@acmefoto.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>
> Not necessarily. --K
>
> At 1:58 PM -0400 6/26/03, Emanuel Lowi wrote:
> >While the idea of an adapted M for digital is a no-go, what I'd like to
see is a
> >digital body with dimensions/size/weight very similar to an M with
Leicavit, that can
> >mount M lenses on the front.
> >
> >For me, the shape/size/weight of the M has as more to do with its virtues
as a
> >shooting tool than do the specifics of its shutter type, advance/rewind
mechanism and
> >(omigosh) focussing system.
> >
> >Emanuel Lowi
> >Montreal
>
> Unfortunately, it's the lenses that are the main problem.
>

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