Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/15

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Subject: [Leica] Sensor Size visual chart
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Sat Dec 15 06:42:25 2007
References: <C388C759.7B743%mark@rabinergroup.com>

to ressurrect a quaint americanism: "you can't beat cubes"

-rei

On Dec14 23:50, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/SensorSizes.png
> 
> I've had plans to draw this up myself by Wiki did it for me.
> Its good to see this stuff.
> 
> 
> Print it out!
> 
> Also very good to absorb is the mm2's of each format.
> 
> Why I looked it up is I was checkout out the "Leica" V lux camera which is
> gorgeous but has  ridiculously tiny  1/1.8" inch sensor which would be 
> great
> for a credit card camera.
> 38 mm2's. Square millimeters that's supposed to mean.
> 
> 4/3's is 225 mm2's
> APS-C is  379 mm2's
> 35mm full frame is 864 mm2's
> Medium format  in this example is 1977 mm2's
> 
> 
> Maybe the formats should be named after your fingernails.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> markrabiner.com
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey


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