Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How about an SR? A scaled down S2. An S2 with a 24x36 sensor (or 28x38 which I believe all R lenses would cover pretty damn well) and with an R lens mount. The basic body tooling exists. Minor adjustments for plane of focus (sensor) to lens mount distances. The larger ground glass with smaller frame lines would be wonderful. Basic electronics exist. ;~) Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Sep 7, 2010, at 5:29 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > Nice to kick some ideas around :-) > > Full aperture metering really is the crux of the matter - there will have > to be some kind of mechanism to stop the lens down for shooting. > > For this, I too can only envisage this being a motorized system installed > in some kind of adapter with an electronic interface to the camera - I > like the idea of a ring to control the aperture setting, like on the OM-1 > body > > Otherwise, we would have to dial in the aperture and stop down accordingly. > > Do we actually need a shutter mechanism? Probably not, there must ways of > switching a sensor on and off as an alternative. > > Of course the ideal solution would be a BIG rangefinder body for R-lenses, > with a very precise rangefinder to take account of long lenses :-) > Forget the traditional rangefinder principle and use a laser rangefinder > instead perhaps? Laser are a penny a dozen these days. > > Or a return to the Periflex system where you dropped a periscope mirror > (maybe a sensor would do it too?) into the raypath. > > > I would actually like to see a Live-View/control unit, with all the > controls you need, that fits into the top shoe (at least a 3" monitor, > preferably larger) as a waist level finder (with a loupe for checking > focus), could strapped to your wrist or connected by a remote cable or > Bluetooth so you can compose your shots and shoot from almost anywhere. > > All wishful thinking