Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/12

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Summilux-CT lenses
From: durling at cox.net (Mike Durling)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:17:27 -0400
References: <5E6D3335-331F-48B6-B092-F6EB47DA3485@charter.net> <u2jee8fa51c1004092005t9e0874ar1f13e54fab64e805@mail.gmail.com> <010401cad862$b1fe7b40$15fb71c0$@net> <j2nee8fa51c1004092335zd094faffn88ca89c004285762@mail.gmail.com> <4BC120DA.7030904@cox.net> <v2yee8fa51c1004102001h3d1d2263nbf388e2cc037f764@mail.gmail.com>

Full aperture for 35 cine is 18x24mm.  Of course that is from the silent 
days.  Add an optical track and its academy aperture which is smaller.  
Widescreen is shorter.

Of course VistaVision was 24x36 before the soundtrack.  That's a 
specialized format now and for regular projection not really needed due 
to the quality of glass and emulsions these days.

Mike D

Marty Deveney wrote:
> That makes sense; I guess they still won't have a large enough image
> circle to cover 24x35 mm.
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> Marty
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