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Subject: [Leica] New R Solution?
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:55:59 -0500
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P. S.
With the M9, S2, and pro cine lenses recapturing the attention of 
"professionals"
I truly believe that a Leica SR could also capture their imagination and 
desire.

Leica's MMV

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist





On Sep 7, 2010, at 5:50 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:

> How about an SR?
> 
> A scaled down S2.
> An S2 with a 24x36 sensor
> (or 28x38 which I believe all R lenses would cover pretty damn well)
> and with an R lens mount.
> 
> The basic body tooling exists.
> Minor adjustments for plane of focus (sensor) to lens mount distances.
> The larger ground glass with smaller frame lines would be wonderful.
> Basic electronics exist.
> 
> ;~)
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser 
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 7, 2010, at 5:29 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote:
> 
>> Nice to kick some ideas around :-)
>> 
>> Full aperture metering really is the crux of the matter - there will have 
>> to be some kind of mechanism to stop the lens down for shooting.
>> 
>> For this, I too can only envisage this being a motorized system installed 
>> in some kind of adapter with an electronic interface to the camera - I 
>> like the idea of a ring to control the aperture setting, like on the OM-1 
>> body
>> 
>> Otherwise, we would have to dial in the aperture and stop down 
>> accordingly.
>> 
>> Do we actually need a shutter mechanism? Probably not, there must ways of 
>> switching a sensor on and off as an alternative.
>> 
>> Of course the ideal solution would be a BIG rangefinder body for 
>> R-lenses, with a very precise rangefinder to take account of long lenses 
>> :-)
>> Forget the traditional rangefinder principle and use a laser rangefinder 
>> instead perhaps? Laser are a penny a dozen these days.
>> 
>> Or a return to the Periflex system where you dropped a periscope mirror 
>> (maybe a sensor would do it too?) into the raypath.
>> 
>> 
>> I would actually like to see a Live-View/control unit, with all the 
>> controls you need, that fits into the top shoe (at least a 3" monitor, 
>> preferably larger) as a waist level finder (with a loupe for checking 
>> focus), could strapped to your wrist or connected by a remote cable or 
>> Bluetooth so you can compose your shots and shoot from almost anywhere.
>> 
>> All wishful thinking
> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from leicar at q.com (Aram Langhans) ([Leica] New R Solution?)
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