Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/27

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Subject: RE: [Leica] R8/R9 Digital Back announced
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:26:31 -0400

Good point - I guess I focus at or even vaguely near infinity so
infrequently (or beyond 10 feet for that matter :-) )that I ignored that
obviously problem. Ah well....

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Douglas
Herr
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 11:17 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] R8/R9 Digital Back announced


bdcolen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> There is one thing I don't get in all this - If the rear lens
> element must be further from the digital sensor than it must 
> be from the film plane of the Leica M, and if what we're 
> talking about is creating the same sort of Digoflex for the M 
> that Leica is creating for the R, why can't this Digoflex 
> simply consist of a bottom and back unit similar to
> that being created for the R, with the sensor mounted at the 
> correct distance from the lens rear element?

Are you suggesting this for a camera that can use existing M lenses?
Infinity focus comes to mind.... it could certainly work with lenses
that were re-designed so that the exit pipil would be farther away from
the film plane but the size and weight of these lenses would be much
like SLR lenses.


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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