[Leica] LEICA could be clever

[feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)]

On Feb 26, 2005, at 1:36 AM, Steve Unsworth wrote:

> Nathan, I could be wrong, but I wonder if Leica were fixated on the 
> idea
> of a full frame sensor for the digital M when they kept saying that it
> wasn't possible? From what I've seen of the vignetting in some of the
> shots from the RD1 they cold still be right. The decision to go for a
> 1.3 chip has probably made the engineer's lives much easier :-)

I think that may have been one of the reason why Leica used to say
that it wasn't possible. The cost of a good full frame chip, or one 
with a minimum
of 10MP may have also been a factor.


> Does anyone think that the non-professional SLR market will eventually
> stabilise at 10 mega pixels? If manufacturers continue to up the pixel
> count on the 1.6 crop SLRs won't we begin to see the same kind of noise
> that plagues the P&S market?
> Steve


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