Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/08

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Subject: [Leica] New R Solution?
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:32:29 -0500
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Wow - and from an engineer
I'm stunned

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
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On Sep 8, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Frank Dernie wrote:

> 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.
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