Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you Geoff, I hope remember this in the future and don?t ask it again, Cheers Lluis El 15/11/2013, a las 21:08, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> escribi?: > Lluis APSC (or APS-C) is a common term to describe a sensor size with a > common crop factor of about 1.5X. > 23.6mm x 15,7mm. > Cameras like the Fuji X series or the Leica X series or amateur model Nikon > D-SLRs for example. > > So smaller than the M8 with crop factor of 1.3x > but larger than micro four thirds with a crop factor nearly 2x > > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 16 November 2013 04:04, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks Geoff, but I don?t know what is a sensor APSC? >> >> Cheers >> Lluis >> >> >> El 15/11/2013, a las 05:39, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> >> escribi?: >> >>> CEO Alfred Schopf visited Australia recently and provided an interview to >>> Paul Burrows, editor of 'Camera' magazine here. It's a very good local >>> publication and I thoroughly recommend this article (and the magazine) in >>> their Nov/Dec 2013 issue to anyone who can obtain it. >>> You can get it as a digital edition apparently at >>> www.zinio.com/camera >>> >>> I think that I can quote small portions of particular interest here >> without >>> transgression. Perhaps the complete interview will become available? >>> >>> All direct transcriptions from parts of answers by CEO: >>> >>> ..."to be honest, I'm not 100 percent sure where the D-SLR market is >> going >>> to be in the future. The mirrorless cameras are coming on and on and on >> and >>> I'm not entirely convinced that in ten years time we will have a D-SLR >>> market" >>> >>> When asked will there ever be a Leica compact system camera: >>> >>> "We will have one, definitely. And it will, of course, be quite different >>> to M system. We want to have autofocus with such a system and we may well >>> have an APSC size sensor rather than a bigger one......." >>> >>> Getting back to Leica's plans for a CSC, Alfred states: >>> "It will be a German built camera, however I'm not sure we can make all >> of >>> the lenses made in Germany because we are talking about a different price >>> range to M system so I could imagine that we do some fixed focal length >>> lenses in Germany and maybe with the zooms we will co-operate with a >>> partner" >>> He stresses that Leica won't be building on Panasonic's Micro Four Thirds >>> format. >>> >>> On film cameras, Alfred Schopf said: >>> "We are now the world's biggest manufacturer of film cameras on the >>> planet- because we are the only one, more or less. As long as we get >> orders >>> we will continue. At the moment we get between 600 and 700 orders per >>> year............" >>> >>> >>> >>> Cheers >>> Geoff >>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information