Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At the huge PHOTO PLUS EXPO in late October at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City which I went to for the first time there was a guy walking around with a 6x12 camera he built himself. And a cowboy hat I think. By far the highlight of the occasion for me. He could not go anywhere without drawing a crowd. I walked into Photokina 0ct 06 with a Brownie Hawkeye around my neck. No one was amused. Mark William Rabiner > From: Lottermoser George <imagist3@mac.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:22:05 -0600 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: Re[2]: [Leica] 6x17 lust > > Did the BigShot ever make it into production? > It seemed always about to appear. > > Fond regards, > George > > george@imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > On Dec 27, 2008, at 9:05 AM, lindnich@tesco.net wrote: > >> There was once the bigshot: http://www.epi-centre.com/reports/ >> 9604cs.html >> BWs Gordon >> >> Saturday, December 27, 2008, 1:29:54 PM, you wrote: >> >> MR> Any 2 and a 1/4 square camera a Rolleiflex or old Hasselblad >> would be twice >> MR> the frame size of the S2 only shooting film instead of just a >> capture area. >> >> MR> There does not seem to be a medium format system like the >> traditional >> MR> Hasselblad in which a digital back you'd get for it is very >> close at all to >> MR> 2 1/4 square. Though some are hyped as "full frame" digital. >> Referring to >> MR> full frame 645 not 6x6. And not even that. >> MR> 6x6 = 2 and a 1/4 square >> MR> Its 6 cm >> >> MR> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information