Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/06

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Subject: [Leica] Medium Format Digital
From: rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 23:42:22 -0700
References: <CAH1UNJ2cByyah3tvt+yC4-UZAEbnA_BxDkPAtqayDO8-6yyU1A@mail.gmail.com> <7F3E2370-990E-4571-A5C5-B353D63F4451@frozenlight.eu> <CAF8hL-G5hY9YR6AmPSy_Y9gGBaxjhbsvRAb2t285VvuoyHFVoQ@mail.gmail.com>

My P45+ stitched in portrait orientation (18mm shift on each side) with the 
35mm lens gives a rough equivalent of a medium format 17.5mm lens. That 
translates into what, about a 12mm rectilinear 35mm equivalent?

And you want what?
See:
http://www.rgaphoto.com/GT/content/Valley_View_Pano_W_large.html

This image is from 3 main segments produced by using 3 back shifts with a 
portrait oriented P45+ and 35mm lens, for each segment. The 3 back shifts of 
each segment were stitched together from the images of the 35mm lens shifted 
in portrait orientation. This roughly equates to the view of each of the 3 
segments equaling the field of view of a 17.5mm medium format lens/ 12mm 
lens on a 35mm format system.  3of these were stitched(swinging the camera 
on a panoramic head) to give the image. It was then cropped. The file is 
over 2.2GB. 

Give me a place to stand and I will hang this image!

In all seriousness there are some correctly stated and some overstated items 
in this expose. But all in all, medium format for landscapes is at a really 
nice place right now...

Anyone want to buy some Hassy V and Canon equip? :-)
Bob 

Bob Adler
http://www.rgaphoto.com

On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:

> My pipe dream is that someone, well, Fuji specifically :-) would make a
> 
> 18x49mm sensor, and build a digital RF system for it. The sensor size is
> just about the same size as the "full frame" 35mm, so the technology and
> cost is known (remember that full frame Canon and Sony are as "low" as
> $2500).
> 
> The result would of course be a cropped digital XPan. The lens should be
> much easier to design - heck, lets make them all F2.8 while we are at it.
> 
> Sell the whole system with 3 lens (30, 45 and 90 equivalent) for $10,000 to
> $12,000, and I bet they will sell at least as many of that as Pentax 645D.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/>
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