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Subject: [Leica] Leica R-10 at Photokina 2008
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Thu May 8 08:17:42 2008
References: <380-22008548145637911@M2W035.mail2web.com>

If it is going to be, as some have predicted, a square format, we could 
be in for a completely new body design too - no longer any need to 
rotate the camera for portrait format shots.
I really wonder what it's going to look like - sort of a cross between a 
Rollei 3003 and a Leica-R9?
Douglas

wildlightphoto@earthlink.net wrote:
> Howard Ritter <hlritter@bex.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> But the assumption is that a manufacturer would not build a lens  
>> with a larger image circle than would be required to acceptably  
>> illuminate a circle of approximately 43.5 mm--the diagonal of the 24 x  
>> 36 mm frame. A lens with a larger image circle would be larger,  
>> heavier, and more expensive, to no purpose.
>>     
>
> Logically you are correct, however there may have been other purposes in
> mind when the lenses were designed that never saw the light of day.  Among
> older Telyts, the 400mm f/5 and 280mm f/4.8 will cover 6x6.  I've also seen
> a 400mm f/6.8 adapted to 645 (I think) but I don't know how the performance
> is at the edges.  More often I'll see the 280mm f/4.8 adapted to 645, 6x6
> or even 6x7.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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