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Leica are looking to establish a new type of camera system, blurring the line between 35mm and medium format cameras. The German manufacturer is working with the Danish company Phase One to create the S System – camera bodies which are about the same size as SLR cameras, but contain significantly larger sensors and use 2:3 aspect ratio. The first camera from this series, the Leica S2 was unveiled at the Photokina fair in Cologne.
The S2 was especially developed for the professional sector, with its 37.5 megapixels and 30 x 45mm image sensor. The resolution is good enough to compete with that of medium format digital cameras, and images are stored on a memory card. Data is quickly processed nearly twice as fast using the Maestro image processor, which was developed in cooperation with Fujitsu.
The metal casing is compatible with various autofocus lenses, although more technical details are not known as of yet. Leica will publish details about their new professional camera in January, so there’s still a while to wait until we see the camera.
