The new Leica DSLR is neither a 4/3rds format camera nor does it use R mount lenses. It's a larger than 35mm format midway between 35mm and 645 format in format size with a 3:2 aspect ratio. It uses a completely new set of Leica S mount lenses.
Leica does sell 4/3rds DSLR's which use 4/3rds lenses, but they're simply rebadged Panasonics. Leica also sells a few 4/3rds lenses, mostly in kits with either Leica or Panasonic branded SLR's, but there's a pair of lenses available outside the kits (a 25mm f1.4 Summicron-D and a 14-150mm D Vario-Elmar OIS zoom,Leica refers to the 4/3rds mount with the D designation) -Adam On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:18 PM, JC OConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
