Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They would want the body in my opinion to be much smaller than the S2. Leica is not about cameras which are bigger than they need to be. But as compact as possible. So the tooling would need to be made fresh. And they don't want to keep making or selling or talking about R lenes. So I don't see it happening. They want you to use the S system spend a lot of money and knock everybody's socks off. Not the R system which didn't get much respect. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Lottermoser George <imagist3 at mac.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:50:37 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] New R Solution? > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information