Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This could be really great, try to do this. I was also convinced that the "huge amount of electronics" was a little bit exagerated. I was planning a kind of Leicavit, in wich all the electronic can surely be held, preferably with all card slots, usb ports and so on opening in the upper face of this leicavit, so when is is put on the camera, nothing can be seen, so esthetic, and well protected too! just two to four push buttons on the sides of the tft on the flappable back, iso, white, res, format, and it's enough. I was thinking also that some electronics could be held in the film can location, having the upper part of this extension driven by the rewind, like a rocking joypad you find in most slr's today, to find between list, options to see pixs and moving between them, could be nice no? Best Gregoire Vandenschrick - ----- Original Message ----- From: <LRZeitlin@aol.com> To: <leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:50 AM Subject: [Leica] Digital M - not > JB writes: > > <<What I'm saying is that there is no room in, on, or around an M camera for > > the massive amount of electronics that is necessary, including media of > > some sort, to support a digital sensor. The back bump would be so big, you > > couldn't get your eye up to the viewfinder. And you have to synchronize the > > digital back with the mechanical part of the camera. >> > > JB, > > Give Leica engineers credit for some imagination. I agree that it would be > absurd to mount all the digital electronics in a blob at the back of the camera. > Almost as absurd as putting the sync contacts in your eyeball as on my M3 > (I'm a left eyed shooter) or keeping needle threading loading through a bottom > slot for 77 years. The only alteration to the mechanics of the M that need be > made for digital use is the substitution of a sensor for the inspection back > flap. All of the electronics could be contained in a base plate attachment, a la > motor winder. By actual measurement, all of the electronics necessary for > photography in my Digiflex camera works out to about 3 cubic inches. This includes > the CPU, the battery, and the memory card. The lens focusing mechanism and > the various motors would not be required for a digital M. This would require a > base plate extension of only about 1/2 inch deep. Synchronization with the > mechanical functions is already built in via the sync contacts. The camera could > be restored to conventional use by switching back flaps and base plates. > > Most of us M users that desire a digital facility don't want the bells and > whistles, multiple modes or movie and sound recording capabilites that clutter > up conventional digital cameras. All we want is a film substitute that will let > us use our cameras as we have done for lo these many years. But with the > capability of immediately accessing our results and loading into our computers > without requiring us to scan negatives. > > What the hell, I've got a couple of user Leicas and old digitals. I might > even try to cobble up a digital Leica myself just to prove it can be done. > > Larry Z > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 20/08/2003 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html