Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The digital is here already - I just read a test in our national photo magazine of Kodak´s DCS Pro Back - CCD size is 36.86 x 36.86 mm and resolution 16 megapixels - but it fits only Hasselblad 555 ELD and Mamiya RZ67 Pro II cameras. Price is about 25000 USD. So it can be done, but at a price. If there are enough willing customers, a 35 mm version is not far away. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Dan Post <dpost@triad.rr.com> Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Päivä: 05. marraskuuta 2001 0:10 Aihe: Re: digital, was: Re: [Leica] Piezo Plunge >Well, as Jim points out, digital ain't there yet, and Leica usually arrives >about 40 years after everybody else! :o) >N.B.- Maximum Smiley! > >I would like a reasonably priced digital- perhaps like the Konica or Cosina >that use the Leica lenses, and had a 24x36 chip- Might be interesting, but I >don't think I'd put big bucks into a Leica Digital M type.... For what I use >digital for, the Digilux does quite well!! >Dan >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Simon Lamb" <simon@sclamb.com> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 4:32 PM >Subject: Re: digital, was: Re: [Leica] Piezo Plunge > > >> The Contax chip is manufactured by Philips and I assume it is available to >> any manufacturer. I believe Pentax were going to use the same chip in >their >> (now cancelled) 6 mega pixel SLR. >> >> Simon >> >> George Day wrote: >> >> > Well, >> > >> > This has been beaten to death, but a digital M-mount camera would make >all >> > the sense in the world. Not for the purist, of course, but you can bet >> many >> > an amateur and working photographer on pounce on such a beast. If Leica >> > could get their hands on (assuming they don't have it) a Contax-style >> > full-frame chip... >> > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html