Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank Filippone writes: > This requires a sensor of size 1.5 BILLION > pixels. Mr Leica Engineer can calculate > this number precisely. 35 million pixels would be enough for even the better Leica lenses, under ideal conditions, and on tripods. Nothing requires 1.5 billion pixels. Most of your reasoning and premises are incorrect. For full-frame viewing at normal distances, six to eight million pixels is sufficient. You only need more if you are going to look more closely, or if you crop and enlarge. > This is not to say that Leica will not have a > more sophisticated digital camera than the Digilux, > but rather that the quality of Leica glass can not > today, nor maybe within our lifetimes, be actually > CAPTURED using digital sensor techniques. Digital techniques are quite capable of profiting from Leica glass--it's just that nothing currently _affordable_ can do this, not even the professional cameras. It's technically no great obstacle, but the practical commercial implementation just isn't there yet.