24x58mm frames with EOS 24mm/f3.5....ponderings....

[Willem-Jan Markerink <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

Dear gang,

Considering the success of the Hassy Xpan (24x66mm with 45mm lens) 
and Voigtlaender Bessa L (24x36mm with 15mm lens)....

....wouldn't it be nice if Canon created an EOS-mount body, no
matter how simple (look at the Voigtlaender!), that could tackle
24x58mm frames?
Since that is perfectly within the range of all the TS-E tilt/shift 
lenses, 24, 45 and 90mm....normal image is 36mm wide, with 11mm shift 
to both sides....makes 58mm.
And a 24mm lens on a 58mm wide frame makes an horizontal angle of 100 
degree....almost equal to the horizontal view of a 14mm on a 24x36 
frame (or the diagonal view of a 17mm lens).

Just curious: how many of you guys would be interested to buy such a
body, especially when kept simple & cheap? AF isn't needed for these
TS-E lenses, so a few hundred dollars are already saved....and you 
only need an EOS-specific body because of the electronic aperture 
control, otherwise it would be tempting to fabricated something out 
of a stereo-camera....
I would buy one in a split second, since I already own a 24mm....:-))

Just so that nobody claims that the EOS system has reached perfection 
already....without such a pan-body, it hasn't!

Feel free to bug Canon reps about this idea whenever you see 
them....:-))


--                 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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