Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/21

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Subject: [Leica] RE: digital M
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:01:56 -0700
References: <OE33DbH8J0sca0ZkfzD000010f4@hotmail.com>

At 05:17 PM 7/21/01 -0700, Jay Burleson wrote:

>instead a super high end M digital that uses existing lenses
>and similar body shape.

Well... you can put the guts of any number of available digital cameras 
into a body similar to the M shape. This DOES NOT make it a "digital M." 
And you WILL NOT be able to utilize the high resolution, high definition, 
and high contrast, of Leica M lenses. You would get digital images, but 
they will be no better than most other $1500 digital camera.

If you simply research the physics, the geometry, and the make-up of a 
digital sensor, how it is scanned, what the voltage levels are, etc, it 
should become quite clear that hoping for a breakthrough in capturing a 
zillion pixels instantaneously, running color space conversion, PRNU, 
interpolation, JPEG, and getting a file out of a camera large enough to 
compete with real film (100mb) is still a pipe dream.

Jim

In reply to: Message from "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> (Re: [Leica] digital M)