Re: Admit it; You'd like a Nikon FE-2 with a digital back

In article <7dbb22p87faggqfkj0ibm49ejhqtlglun5@xxxxxxx>, Rich <none@xxxxxxxx> writes

Yes, you are right. The problem is the lenses and how their focus
mechanisms work.

No, the problem is with the camera body. For any camera *system* there is a defined distance between the camera's lens interface, the mount, and the focal plane. For any particular camera body there is a defined distance between the focal plane and the shutter. The former defines where the sensor needs to be, the latter defines how much clearance there is to mount additional physical components.

I wonder how Leica got around this problem?

Luck - they happened to have enough room between the shutter and the focal plane in their R series (determined long before digital imaging became possible) to fit a silicon sensor into the space,

Could the digital back
be using some kind of negative lens to allow the lens focus points
to be shifted backwards?

It could indeed be, if yo are prepared to tolerate the losses that such a lens would impose. Similarly, light pipes or fibre optic bundles could be used with their own limitations.
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