[Leica] Leica R-10 at Photokina 2008

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

They may still be able to do that if the R lens were designed with a 
larger image circle to begin with. For example, I know for sure that 
the Summicron 50 R covers a good portion of the XPan frame.

Certainly, for argument sake, if the majority of the R lens cover a 
larger image circle than the 24x36 frame, then for them to release 
such a camera will be a good selling point. If the base price is at 
least $7000 (R9+DMR), then adding a few millimeters here and there in 
the sensor for another $1000 make sense.

May be they will have a selective image ratio builtin, dial for 2/3, 
4/3, square, XPan'ish etc. Sure people can crop in the end, but if 
that's the ideal solution, then everyone would be shooting square 
format in the first place :-)

At 11:28 PM 5/7/2008, Didier Ludwig wrote:

>No. 36x36 fills a larger circle than 24x36.
>Look this sketch I made once when the discussion was about the same topic:
>http://mogool.com/transfer/pythagoras.gif
>Didier
>
>
> > They could very easily go to a 36x36 and keep the current lenses.
> >
> > Gene

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