Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Minor corrections. The chip is designed in Belgium and manufactured under contract in France. A very popular and common arrangement for semiconductors. The sensr is fabricated on 12" (300 mm) wafers. You could spend a few minutes trying to figure out the number of sensors per wafern but don't waste your time. The yield factor is equally important if not more important. Anyway with a proprietary sensor Leica CAN differentiate itself. The big question is now the software and features that can be thought out. I think the Farkas article quite good. It IS an exciting time to shoot the Leica glass. Personally i think the most s cuting feature to await is the built in EVF. when that happens Leica will have arrived and can dominate in their area of real expertise: superb optics Frank Filippone -----Original Message----- >From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >Sent: Sep 20, 2012 2:19 AM >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Subject: [Leica] The Kingdom of Belgium, prototypes > >Americans going to Europe would think to go to Germany for a Beer, >Switzerland for a brick of chocolate. Europeans I hear would go to Belgium >for both. Looking into it I also see cheese. Cheese is a religion in >France. But it would seem a few people think what comes out of Belgian is >king in that department as well. >All from a tiny country which don't get no respect. Europeans also tease if >for being middle class in bourgeois way from all I've heard.. How much of >this is true I don't know I'm way over here. I'm interested as I'm a big >fan of Hercule Poirot . >But the sensor in the ground shaking Leica M about to come out is made in >Belgium I didn't catch the name of the company. Made especially for Leica. >So it won't be as predictable as part of the same sensor making consortiums >who make them for the Canon's and Nikons and familiar others. So its >exciting to see if it will be a leap ahead of what everyone's used to or >perhaps just a tad behind. Or by coincidence almost exactly the same in >result. >And no anti alias filter again. We'd expect that. And with cutting edge >firmware to back it up. Software even. Medium rare ware. >So it will be exciting to see what the results will be. The jpegs and >prints. >What I didn't quite grab as I watched the video of the guy shooting the >model was that the new Leica M is in prototype state. Were pictures really >being shot? Maybe not. I'm not going to dwell on it and get all >disappointed. The model got paid anyway. If there was a card in the camera >I'm sure they would have turned out great. I hope it was the one with the >card glued in. not the one with no card. >Lots could change. Its not exactly carved out of a block of balsa wood. But >the Leica M is not fully realized yet. I realized that tonight. I hope >there are no delays with its release. If I had the money in hand I'd wait 5 >months for the bugs to show itself and be resolved before getting one. This >is a huge leap of technology for a company based in mechanical excellence. >... Hammers hitting brass... But sooner more than later I'm thinking sooner >they'll be out there upping the bar on the quality of images we're seeing >and shooting ourselves. >A terribly exciting time to be a die hard Leica nut. > > > >Mark William Rabiner >Photography >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Frank Filippone