[Leica] M8 type cover glass on a Full Frame body

[Frank Verizon]

The glass on the M8 is 0.8mm thick.  I'm forget where I found this data.
The thinnest glass Kolari will put on a FF sensor is 1.0mm thick.

Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net

On Nov 24, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

Is there any public information on whether an M8 type cover glass is
available for full frame sensors?

Where I'm going with this is that I actually prefer an extended red
sensitivity for B&W work.  I'm an old Tech Pan film shooter, and I thought
its rendering was closer to how I print landscapes than was standard B&W
(or color) film.

Given my style of shooting, what could be a step forward, at least in
spectral sensitivity, might be an M8 type glass, but on a modern full frame
camera -- Leica M or Sony a7r lines being the top contenders for me.

While I'm a B&W printer mostly, I'd still rather have the M8 glass on a
color sensor.  Filtering (including the "split channels" in Photoshop)  and
selecting by color range is too important for me to switch to a Monochrome
-- or so I think for now.

(I have the question in to http://kolarivision.com/ also and will let
people know if they answer.)

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

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