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Subject: [OM] Re: Missing digital ideas
From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:53:27 -0500
> 1. When will the digi-crew realise that 35mm lenses are made to cover a 
> 43mm circle and provide
> a camera with a 43x43 sensor? This sensor would have 114% more surface 
> area and approach
> the quality possible with a 645 camera but be able to use 35mm system 
> lenses.
A superb idea. As some of you may remember, most all of my professional work 
is on 2 1/4 square, now that there is basically no requirement for slides. 
In the world of published photos, the common sizes (8x10, etc.) are of no 
concern. The square offers the most cropping options.

> 2. If you have an electronic viewfinder, the flange to sensor distance can 
> be arbitrarily small.
someone posted a link to a company on the east coast that makes high quality 
EVF's Will we ever see these in a camera? With the transition to slr's, I 
don't think so.
Why
> hasn't someone made a body with a large sensor and a set of 
> interchangeable flanges which can
> accommodate almost any 35mm system lens, from Leica/Contax to ... If smart 
> enough, the
> flanges could even support auto exposure and auto focus lenses from 
> various makers.
No body wants to give up the sales of dedicated lenses. Witness the Canon 
and Nikonmove to cheap kit lenses.

Bill Pearce 


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