Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/21

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Curved film planes in 35mm camera
From: dennis at hale-pohaku.com (Dennis Painter)
Date: Mon Jun 21 06:00:49 2004
References: <108a01c4540e$57517cd0$c9e17d80@KRIEGERLPT>
 
Many of the Minox cameras have a curved film plane. One direction only of 
course. And the lens is not a simple lens, 4 element f/3.5 as I recall.

Martin Krieger wrote:

> The new Konica Film-In Superwide one time use camera, 17mm lens, has a 
> curved film plane horizontally. The images are quite good (it has 800 
> speed film Konica color negative film in it). Are there any other cameras 
> you know of that have tried this? I assume that the trick is that the 
> image plane is in fact not so flat given the simple lens, and hence the 
> curving of the film plane makes up for that.
>
Replies: Reply from attinasi at mac.com (Marc Attinasi) ([Leica] OT: Konica Super-Wide disposable (was: Curved film planes in 35mm camera))
 In reply to: Message from krieger at usc.edu (Martin Krieger) ([Leica] OT: Curved film planes in 35mm camera)