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Subject: [Leica] 6x17 lust
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat Dec 27 13:19:39 2008

Yes all kinds of companies makes backs for the modular cube cameras like the
Hasselblad. Medium format backs.

Mark William Rabiner



> From: Seth Rosner <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:44:25 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 6x17 lust
> 
> Mark, I'm writing about something about which I know next to nothing; but 
> is
> there not a digital back for the 6x6 Hasselblad? And I know that the Alpa 
> 12
> can be had with a 6x6 digital back.
> 
> Seth
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 8:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 6x17 lust
> 
> 
>> Any 2 and a 1/4 square camera a Rolleiflex or old Hasselblad would be
>> twice
>> the frame size of the S2 only shooting film instead of just a capture
>> area.
>> 
>> There does not seem to be a medium format system like the traditional
>> Hasselblad in which a digital back you'd get for it is very close at all
>> to
>> 2 1/4 square. Though some are  hyped as "full frame" digital. Referring to
>> full frame 645 not 6x6. And not even that.
>> 6x6 =  2 and a 1/4 square
>> Its 6 cm
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Richard Man <richard.lists@gmail.com>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:10:51 -0800
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: [Leica] 6x17 lust
>>> 
>>> I have no budget right now, but looking at the XPan pics made me drool
>>> after
>>> this:
>>> 
>>> <
>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/Fuji-GX617-Panoramic-Camera-Giant-XPan-BOXED-MINT_W0QQit
>>> em
>>> Z270320360174QQihZ017QQcategoryZ3351QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemQQ_
>>> tr
>>> ksidZp1638Q2em122
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I know it will be VERY different from the XPan as the XPan is handheld
>>> camera whereas 6x17 is get-a-sherpa camera, but oh man, the size of the
>>> negatives.....
>>> 
>>> Makes S2 looks like a half frame, and the Nikon FX a quarter frame and
>>> the
>>> 4/3rd a... 16th frame.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
>>> // b: http://rfman.wordpress.com
>>> 
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