Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] CCDs - one more thing
From: Alexey Merz <alexey@webcom.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 17:57:17 -0700

Byron Rakitzis gently corrected my mistake:

>The largest square that will fit in this circle will have a diagonal
>of twice the radius, so the sides will measure
>
>               sqrt((21.6mm*2)^2 / 2) ~= 30.5mm
>
>Well, 30x30 wouldn't be bad, but you would have to give up a bit
>of the length on a 24x36mm frame.


Doh! My bad. Actually, the best CCD size would be 30X40, then, 
permitting *either* a 30.5 x 30.5 mm square *or* variably 
rectangular aspect ratio, at the user's discretion. 

That would be darned cool.

Thanks for catching my error.


- -Alexey