Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Digital Camera: S1
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 13:33:56 -0500
 
At 10:47 AM 04-03-98 EST, Jim Dempsey wrote: 

>Has anyone played with the Leica S1 digital (studio) camera?  The Adobe
>acrobat spec sheet for it looks great and includes great looking photos.
>(Available at: http://www.leica-camera.com/elec_img/pdf/s1_e.pdf) Resolution
>is 5140x5140 and color depth is 36-bits.  Takes Leica-M, Leica-R,
>Hassleblad or other SLR lenses.  The CCD is 36mm wide so lenses optimized
>for 35mm film work great.

I'm not sure what you mean by the width of the CCD.  I thought it was a
tri-linear CCD, basically 3 pixels wide (one pixel for each primary
colour), and the image must be scanned over it.  

Dan C.