Does this 4/3 leica dslr use legacy 35mm leica-R lenses? If it does Than its NOT a FF camera in the general usage of the term today. If it uses 4/3 lenses than it's a 4/3 DSLR and use of the FF term Wouldn't really apply until the day somebody starts making DSLRS That use 4/3 lenses with a sensor smaller than a standard 4/3 sensor.
JC O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Farr Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 8:49 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: Sony full frame A900, where's Pentax? > > Leica has a DSLR that's larger than the lenses designed to fit it? > If you mean that its format is bigger than its lens's coverage, no. The lenses, body, sensor are all part of an integrated system, newly designed, so nothing has been adapted from any older, different format: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0809/08092301_leica_s2.asp My point is, that this Leica is a full frame camera in its format. 4/3 cameras are full frame in their format. It might be argued that an APS format Pentax or Nikon fitted with a small image circle lens is "full frame" because that's the way the designer intended it to be, but it's a stretch of logic I'll admit. An APS Sony makes for a difficult debate because there haven't been any small image circle OEM lenses made for it, so it would seem that they are always shooting less (smaller)than their system's capability. I don't know if Canon sells small image circle lenses. Regards, Anthony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JC > OConnell > Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2008 11:11 AM > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: RE: Sony full frame A900, where's Pentax? > > Leica has a DSLR that's larger than the lenses designed to fit it? > > JC O'Connell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
