Sean scooped the story about
Sean scooped the story about the new Leica and how it naturally will look good with latex and leather. I'm not sure what this is supposed to be exactly... a sly way to coax the old timers into the digital world? Fold them into the MATRIX? I'm sure that even the elitist bastards at HCE will even approve of this little number. Hmm... manual everything just like a traditional SLR except... oops! ...a digital sensor. What gives? Why? The only reasonable explanation is niche fetish. Heh. So anyhoo, I'm absent minded this morning... still trying to wake up. I left my cell phone in the car. I need coffee. I'm a little stressed by the instability at work. I need coffee. So another day begins...
Hey, speaking of digital photography, you see this?
http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/gigapixel.htm
Yeah. That is a lot of work.
I’ve seen that guy’s stuff before. Crazy.
What’s the largest CCD used on high quality digital cameras these days? That Leica had a 2/3” from what I remember.
That’s way tiny, compared to the imaging area of a 35mm camera and microscopic compared to larger format cameras. CCDs are measured diagonally, for some silly reason only a video engineer would even care about. In addition to more and more megapixels they need to up the surface area on those suckers.
That means more light gathering. Also, and this is what I’m big on, imaging surface area relative to focal length and iris diameter is what gives you control over DOF. A larger surface area means you can achieve more dramatic depth falloff.
When we were shooting our film the HD camera’s CCD size is similar to a Super-16mm aperture size. That meant that we couldn’t quite get as cinematic as we’d like to have on close-ups because the background didn’t drop out of focus as much as we’d like.
The state militia, the volunteer fire department, the LA Thunderbirds, the ghost of Steve McQueen and the twelve Roman gladiators, someone save us from video engineers!!!
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