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Subject: [Leica] Medium Format Digital
From: rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 06:45:45 -0700 (PDT)
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Greatest compliment I could get, Jayanand! That's exactly how I felt sitting 
on 
the edge (coupled with complete fear of the camera falling over!!).
Best,
Bob
 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com




________________________________
From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thu, July 7, 2011 1:11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Medium Format Digital

Bob,
That shot of yours gives me vertigo just looking at it!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Bob Adler <rgacpa at yahoo.com> wrote:

> My P45+ stitched in portrait orientation (18mm shift on each side) with the
> 35mm lens gives a rough equivalent of a medium format 17.5mm lens. That
> translates into what, about a 12mm rectilinear 35mm equivalent?
>
> And you want what?
> See:
> http://www.rgaphoto.com/GT/content/Valley_View_Pano_W_large.html
>
> This image is from 3 main segments produced by using 3 back shifts with a
> portrait oriented P45+ and 35mm lens, for each segment. The 3 back shifts 
> of
> each segment were stitched together from the images of the 35mm lens 
> shifted
> in portrait orientation. This roughly equates to the view of each of the 3
> segments equaling the field of view of a 17.5mm medium format lens/ 12mm
> lens on a 35mm format system.  3of these were stitched(swinging the camera
> on a panoramic head) to give the image. It was then cropped. The file is
> over 2.2GB.
>
> Give me a place to stand and I will hang this image!
>
> In all seriousness there are some correctly stated and some overstated
> items in this expose. But all in all, medium format for landscapes is at a
> really nice place right now...
>
> Anyone want to buy some Hassy V and Canon equip? :-)
> Bob
>
> Bob Adler
> http://www.rgaphoto.com
>
> On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:
>
> > My pipe dream is that someone, well, Fuji specifically :-) would make a
> >
> > 18x49mm sensor, and build a digital RF system for it. The sensor size is
> > just about the same size as the "full frame" 35mm, so the technology and
> > cost is known (remember that full frame Canon and Sony are as "low" as
> > $2500).
> >
> > The result would of course be a cropped digital XPan. The lens should be
> > much easier to design - heck, lets make them all F2.8 while we are at it.
> >
> > Sell the whole system with 3 lens (30, 45 and 90 equivalent) for $10,000
> to
> > $12,000, and I bet they will sell at least as many of that as Pentax
> 645D.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/>
> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/>
> > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com>
> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all
> previous
> > replies in your msgs. ]
> >
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Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Medium Format Digital)