Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/10

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Subject: [Leica] More management blabla
From: lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)
Date: Mon Mar 10 11:20:25 2008

Total speculation on mine too, but as far as I'm aware there isn't a camera
that has the same ratio as A2/3/4 etc., and these are the most common sizes
for digital papers.

Steve


On 10/3/08 17:56, "wildlightphoto@earthlink.net"
<wildlightphoto@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Steve Unsworth <lug@steveunsworth.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Doug, given that most people print digitally these days wouldn't it make
>> more sense if the sensor sides were in the same ratio as A3 etc - 1 for
> the
>> short side, square root of 2 for the long? I.e 36mm x 25.46mm
>> 
>> Maybe that's what they mean by a larger that full frame sensor?
> 
> That works too.  Whatever the actual dimensions turn out to be, my guess is
> that the full sensor is proportioned to a common print size so that there
> would be significantly more pixels at work for this proportion vs. the same
> proportions cropped from a 24mm x 36mm sensor area.  Still 100% speculation
> on my part.



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