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 p.5 #5 · ZEISS surprise on wednesday ! | |
go4it wrote:
Edges look fine now with Zeiss and Leica lenses. Perhaps we were sold a bill of goods by the camera manufacturers and their excuses.
In SLR's, this appears to have - at the very least - a shred of truth.
Leica has long maintained that the reason there's no interchangeable digital "M" body on the market (yet) is that the "M" lens design places the rear elements unacceptably close to what we all used to call the "film plane". (OK, OK ... it's the focal plane.) Something like that .....
(I think they're just unacceptably s-l-o-w!)
I keep eye-balling the Epson R-D1 and have to ask myself (guess E. Leitz hasn't) ....... "How did THEY manage to do that?" and why do "M"-mount lenses work on IT"?
Rgds,
Actually, I think Leica has maintained that they wouldn't bring a digital solution to the market until it would meet the expectations of Leica users in terms of final image quality; they didn't think they could do that with a 12 bit 5 or 6 MP imaging solution; there are also problems with the rangefinder base on smaller size chips, as well as the shorter flange to focal plane distances.
But, the reality is of course, that they are indeed 'unacceptably s-l-ow!' and the business has been nearly buried by the poor response. The jury is still out on whether Leica will manage to survive the sequential blunders of the past 20 years.
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