Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/16

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Subject: [Leica] Speculation
From: lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)
Date: Sun Jul 16 00:59:11 2006
References: <527.3a94e8b.31eb1b22@aol.com>

No it will not be full frame. It will have a 1.33 crop. There are  
technical issues that currently prevent a high quality full frame  
sensor on the digital M. Those may be addressed in years to come, but  
not at this stage.

Steve

On 16 Jul 2006, at 05:31, Afterswift@aol.com wrote:

> Will the digital M be FF? Even if Leica had no inkling of the Canon  
> D5  that
> burst on the scene a few months ago, it seems reasonable to assume  
> that the
> brakes are on whatever sub-FF M sensor that Leica Solms intended   
> to be rolled
> out at Photokina. In any case, it's a whole new ball  game.
>
> Bob R

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