Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug hit the nail on the head. Ask Kodak or Canon just how hard it is to engineer a full-frame sensor that can handle even the big retrofocus of SLR lenses. With wideangles, people bitch about banding on the Kodak with some lenses and edge focus bleed with the Canon. This is the price of full frame with today's technology. Canon has allowed the full-frame technology to stagnate; Kodak is still slugging through it. It's not like Epson is going to come out of nowhere and solve all the problems - which is why it's a small sensor. The Sony sensor in the RD-1 is going to a lot closer to the rear end of most RF lenses, and it will be very interesting to see how a sensor designed for (more telecentric) SLR lenses will react to the panoply of RF lens designs. My speculation is that the results may vary wildly lens-by-lens. The general move toward DX lenses (which have a lot more retrofocus clearance than even normal SLR lenses) seems designed to skirt the problems that exist even in the APS sensors. Quoting Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>: > on 3/11/04 5:36 PM, BenMarks@aol.com at BenMarks@aol.com wrote: > > > For my part, I welcome the efforts of any manufacturer who wants to > increase > > the options for me to use this glass I love. Add to that the nudge to > Solms > > that the introduction of a non-Leica digital-M will give and I just can't > see > > anything to be pessimistic about. My hat is off the engineers who solved > this > > "impossible" technical challenge about which so many electrons have been > > spilt. Bravissimo! Now let's see the camera. > > > I also welcome additional choices... but I don't see that they've solved the > impossible technical challenge. They've avoided the technical challenges by > not using a full-frame sensor. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html