Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Many thanks to Mark Rabiner for this most interesting info about the new captor being made in Europe for the future Leica M. I knew from inside info in Solms that from the beginning there had been some problems with another manufacturer (perhaps in Asia) for the captor of the first Digital Leica M i.e. before the Kodak Retinette captor. The Kodak company having met severe troubles I understood the folks in Solms had to look elsewhere. Unexpected delays followed at some time. I am happy to hear they found a solution. But wait and see. At the last Photokina the new Digital Leica M was announced for the beginning of 2013, april or mai at most. Recently I heard rumors it could be postponed to july august,...... 2013 of course. Another idea. Kodak being visibly out for what concerns digital Leicas, the only serious manufacturer left was IMACON in some way linked to Hasselblad. I hope this new manufacturer could also help us sooner or later with a digital back for all the beautifull Hasselblads 500 500 CM ELM and lenses etc without having to change all the equipement most of us still have. And in 6X6 or 6X4.5 format of course Another wish for another Leica Reflex camera with such a 24X36 captor accepting the Leicaflex SL and R lenses without having to change anything. Or is it an impossible dream? By te way the R-8 and R-9 Leicas they abandonned recently are wonderfulle machines. You could even buy a digital back for it the so called DMR (half format), but again from Imacon. Or may be simply a new back? Do you see wat I mean? Sehr Ge?rte Frau A. von...... (best wishes in Solms) do you hear us? Vous nous entendez? H?ren Sie uns? Cedric Agie 013/1/19 Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>: > Pretty cool though Sydney Greenstreet called the S2 a truck in the very end > as was caught up in Luxury and fashion concepts as if he'd not just heard > the guy talking about the Magnum people testing out the cameras and was not > aware of the long history of Magnum and other top of the class working > photographers and Leica. Its as if he was from Mars and someone was just > telling him about Leica. > The X2 regardless of color is not aimed at working photographers obviously > though I bet they they used them. > > > On 1/18/13 10:05 PM, "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: > >> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > 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