Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:04 PM 12/9/00 +0100, Pascal wrote: >Whatever people are saying, Leica has *not* (yet) made a firm commitment >as to a digital future for the R. > >That is not to say there might never be a digital body compatible with >the R lensmount. But you are taking a chance here. > >Pascal >NO ARCHIVE Correct Pascal. As most of you know, I'm in the digital camera design business. The Japanese camera makers have spent Billions of dollars (Quadrillions of Yen) on digital technology. It would be silly for a company like Leica, heavily steeped in conventional film camera and lens design, to undertake a digital camera design. These Japanese companies cannot equal the Solms lens designers. Solms cannot equal the Japanese digital camera designers. And the current crop of Leica lenses are not suitable for consumer digital camera use as their MTF is way too good. They would need a frequency cutoff filter (internally) to limit the MTF to match approximately 80% of the digital sensor's frequency. So a new line of Leica digital lenses would need to be produced. Like Schneider's digital lenses are different than their film lenses. See Schneider's white paper, on their web site, as to why this is true. Jim