[Leica] LEICA could be clever

[driggett at mac.com (Christopher Driggett)]

Would some explain this vignetting problem or point me to a link?  Why 
does film not have this which is full frame and a digital sensor which 
is roughly the 2/3 the size in the middle do? Why do I not have this on 
my D2h and do on my Epson?
Thanks,
Chris

On Feb 26, 2005, at 1:36 AM, Steve Unsworth wrote:

> Nathan, I could be wrong, but I wonder if Leica were fixated on the 
> idea
> of a full frame sensor for the digital M when they kept saying that it
> wasn't possible? From what I've seen of the vignetting in some of the
> shots from the RD1 they cold still be right. The decision to go for a
> 1.3 chip has probably made the engineer's lives much easier :-)
>
> Does anyone think that the non-professional SLR market will eventually
> stabilise at 10 mega pixels? If manufacturers continue to up the pixel
> count on the 1.6 crop SLRs won't we begin to see the same kind of noise
> that plagues the P&S market?
>
> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:lug-bounces+mail=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of Nathan Wajsman
> Sent: 26 February 2005 06:59
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] LEICA could be clever
>
> I fully agree with you that the lenses you mention are fantastic, and I
> have bought several of them as well (although I have since sold some).
> However, most of these lenses were introduced in the 1990s. In the past
> few years, aside from the M7, Leica has introduced very few really new
> products. OK, there is the rebadged Panasonic, but otherwise we are
> talking mostly about new coverings of existing models, a retro MP and
> not much else. The DMR is a good idea but it is at least a year too
> late. And worst of all is the company's longtime insistence that a
> digital M was impossible for all kinds of technical reasons followed by
> the sudden reversal of that opinion after Epson/Cosina introduced the
> RD1.
>
>
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