Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]best idea yet, George. IMO On 7 Sep, 2010, at 23:50, George Lottermoser wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Greystacks, 18 Denchworth Road, Wantage, OX12 9AU +44 (0)1235 768505 +44 (0)7803 135214