Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In Flanders fields the Sensors grow. Between the pixel sites, row on row, CMOS you know is the way to go! Ho ho ho ho, ho ho ho. Mark William Rabiner > From: Philippe Amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:44:57 +0200 (CEST) > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] The Kingdom of Belgium, prototypes > > http://www.cmosis.com/news/press_releases/new_leica_m_uses_cmosis_24_mp_cmos_i > mage_sensor ph Tous vos emails en 1 clic avec l'application SFR Mail sur > iPhone et Android - En savoir > plus. ======================================== Message du : 20/09/2012 > 19:11 De : "Frank " <red735i at earthlink.net> A : "Leica Users Group" > <lug at leica-users.org> Copie ? : Sujet : Re: [Leica] The Kingdom of Belgium, > prototypes Minor corrections. The chip is designed in Belgium and > manufactured under contract in France. A very popular and common > arrangement > for semiconductors. The sensr is fabricated on 12" (300 mm) wafers. You > could > spend a few minutes trying to figure out the number of sensors per wafern > but > don't waste your time. The yield factor is equally important if not more > important. Anyway with a proprietary sensor Leica CAN differentiate itself. > The big question is now the software and features that can be thought out. > I > think the Farkas article quite good. It IS an exciting time to shoot the > Leica glass. Personally i think the most s cuting feature to await is the > built in EVF. when that happens Leica will have arrived and can dominate in > their area of real expertise: superb optics Frank Filippone -----Original > Message----- >From: Mark Rabiner >Sent: Sep 20, 2012 2:19 AM >To: Leica Users > Group >Subject: [Leica] The Kingdom of Belgium, prototypes > >Americans going > to Europe would think to go to Germany for a Beer, >Switzerland for a brick of > chocolate. Europeans I hear would go to Belgium >for both. Looking into it I > also see cheese. Cheese is a religion in >France. But it would seem a few > people think what comes out of Belgian is >king in that department as > well. >All from a tiny country which don't get no respect. Europeans also > tease if >for being middle class in bourgeois way from all I've heard.. How > much of >this is true I don't know I'm way over here. I'm interested as I'm a > big >fan of Hercule Poirot . >But the sensor in the ground shaking Leica M > about to come out is made in >Belgium I didn't catch the name of the company. > Made especially for Leica. >So it won't be as predictable as part of the same > sensor making consortiums >who make them for the Canon's and Nikons and > familiar others. So its >exciting to see if it will be a leap ahead of what > everyone's used to or >perhaps just a tad behind. Or by coincidence almost > exactly the same in >result. >And no anti alias filter again. We'd expect > that. And with cutting edge >firmware to back it up. Software even. Medium > rare ware. >So it will be exciting to see what the results will be. The jpegs > and >prints. >What I didn't quite grab as I watched the video of the guy > shooting the >model was that the new Leica M is in prototype state. Were > pictures really >being shot? Maybe not. I'm not going to dwell on it and get > all >disappointed. The model got paid anyway. If there was a card in the > camera >I'm sure they would have turned out great. I hope it was the one with > the >card glued in. not the one with no card. >Lots could change. Its not > exactly carved out of a block of balsa wood. But >the Leica M is not fully > realized yet. I realized that tonight. I hope >there are no delays with its > release. If I had the money in hand I'd wait 5 >months for the bugs to show > itself and be resolved before getting one. This >is a huge leap of technology > for a company based in mechanical excellence. >... Hammers hitting brass... > But sooner more than later I'm thinking sooner >they'll be out there upping > the bar on the quality of images we're seeing >and shooting ourselves. >A > terribly exciting time to be a die hard Leica nut. > > > >Mark William > Rabiner >Photography >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > >_____ > __________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Frank > Filippone _______________________________________________ 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