Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's derailed Phil Forrest On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:38:03 +1030 Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe: "impossible" just wasn't the right word for leica to use, even > in the early 2000s. > > Marty > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Geoff Hopkinson > <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > > Maybe some semantics? Having talked a little with the senior > > engineers there and beta tested their firmware I can confirm that > > there is a LOT happening to produce the results you see. > > Respect what the camera produces from even lenses designed 50 year > > before the camera was thought of ;-) > > > > Cheers > > Geoff > > > > *Lighting- eyes- action* > > > > > > > > On 13 October 2011 23:05, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> The microlenses and software corrections were established > >> technologies when Leica were saying it was impossible to make a > >> digital M - they just hadn't put the two ideas together in their > >> heads. ?They also thought they could hang in with film and would > >> be okay, but they were wrong. ?It was the same when Ernst Leitz > >> said that the rangefinder would prevail over the SLR. ?Many, many > >> other companies have done it and not survived - Leica have been > >> fortunate, luckily for us. > >> > >> It's a long way from "nearly impossible". > >> > >> Marty > >> > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Geoff Hopkinson > >> <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Hi Jim. I don't want to derail the thread you are in. > >> > But let me tell you that was and is nearly true. > >> > There is a LOT done in the camera with every file from the M9 > >> > even in the raw files. There is a BIG lot done on anything from > >> > wide lenses. Only the idea of different angles on micro-lenses > >> > towards the edges made this possible at all and it is still at > >> > the ragged edge. > >> > > >> > Cheers > >> > Geoff > >> > > >> > *Lighting- eyes- action* > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On 13 October 2011 22:51, Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com> > >> > wrote: > >> > > >> >> I have so many memories of Sal, one of which was his lengthy > >> >> explanation (delivered from top brass at Leica) on why there > >> >> could never be a > >> digital > >> >> M. ?Evidently the physics of the camera made a digital version > >> >> utterly impossible. > >> >> > >> >> J > >> >>