Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A talk with Marc Lethenet from Leica Camera (seems to be in the S team) taken at the Stockholm Photo Fair 2012, talks a bit about the sensor etc http://alltombild.se/fotomassan-2012-samtal-i-montrarna/ - the forth video down ' Ett samtal i Leicas monter, del 2 (M-systemet och X2) | ENGELSKA' - an entertaining quote about 90 seconds in..... john > -----Original Message----- > > As I'd hate to have my favorite camera company accused of "hype" id love to > see that part where they say "how". Just Stating the fact that they make a > CMOS look like a CCD is the question. Its not the answer. > We know they're saying that. We'd not getting how. > Its not in the pdf or pdq either. > Maybe its in the FAQ? > > But I personally don't see the big "look" between the CCD and the CMOS. > Never seen that demonstrated. > A pic on the left with real "pure" colors right next to the same pic on > the right > done by the prevailing and ubiquitous crass crude CMOS sensor so you can > see the errors of your ways. > It smells like hype to me. A shame if that's the case that they could get > sucked into that. > > > On 1/18/13 5:10 PM, "Mark William Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > > > Everybody's buying into this CMOS with CCD flavor idea but nobodies > > asking how they are doing it. I'd love to see that part so I can read > > it and not have a clue what they are talking about. But read it. > > > > > > On 1/18/13 4:58 PM, "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > > >> > >> "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrongly wrote > >>> As I search to see what is in the new Leica 25 CMOS that might make > >>> it worse or better or the same as what most are getting from their > >>> top line DSLR's other than non zoom and better glass I find this on > >>> the people who make the sensor and on the sensor itself. Made by > >>> CMOSIS of Antwerp Belgium. A city of many flavors of chocolate and > >>> beer. > >> > >>> http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2012/09/cmosis-sensor-in-lei > >>> ca-m-ran > >>> gefinder.html > >>> > >> http://tinyurl.com/at2feb2 shows that it was actually made in > >> Grenoble in France which has an attractive ride in a cablecar over > >> the river Isere to the Bastille overlooking the city, or at least it > >> had in 1989. They may have ground it down to make sensors since.... > >> > >> Douglas > >> > >>