Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jul 6, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Richard Man wrote: > My pipe dream is that someone, well, Fuji specifically :-) would make a > > 18x49mm sensor, and build a digital RF system for it. The sensor size is > just about the same size as the "full frame" 35mm, so the technology and > cost is known (remember that full frame Canon and Sony are as "low" as > $2500). > > The result would of course be a cropped digital XPan. The lens should be > much easier to design - heck, lets make them all F2.8 while we are at it. > > Sell the whole system with 3 lens (30, 45 and 90 equivalent) for $10,000 to > $12,000, and I bet they will sell at least as many of that as Pentax 645D. <http://www.britishpanoramics.com/Seitz617.html> Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist