Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, I'm afraid the Sulfur ii is definitely not aimed at the Leica M market. Paul On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Frank Verizon <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > The glass on the M8 is 0.8mm thick. I'm forget where I found this data. > The thinnest glass Kolari will put on a FF sensor is 1.0mm thick. > > Frank Filippone > Red735i at verizon.net > > On Nov 24, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there any public information on whether an M8 type cover glass is > available for full frame sensors? > > Where I'm going with this is that I actually prefer an extended red > sensitivity for B&W work. I'm an old Tech Pan film shooter, and I thought > its rendering was closer to how I print landscapes than was standard B&W > (or color) film. > > Given my style of shooting, what could be a step forward, at least in > spectral sensitivity, might be an M8 type glass, but on a modern full frame > camera -- Leica M or Sony a7r lines being the top contenders for me. > > While I'm a B&W printer mostly, I'd still rather have the M8 glass on a > color sensor. Filtering (including the "split channels" in Photoshop) and > selecting by color range is too important for me to switch to a Monochrome > -- or so I think for now. > > (I have the question in to http://kolarivision.com/ also and will let > people know if they answer.) > > Paul > www.PaulRoark.com > > ? > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >