Not sure if it'll EVER happen, but it would be awefully cool if we got an Digital XPan with a MF sensor and a set of anamorphic lens that improves resolution in the vertical direction. Traditionally, anamorphic film camera used anamorphic lenses that stretched a wide aspect image vertically on the film in order to make use of the vertical space that would otherwise be unexposed. To transform the image back into a normal image, a corresponding anamorphic projection lens was used.
With some pretty basic image transformation software, you can essentially replace the role of the anamorphic projection lens and do the reverse transformation digitally. That way, you:
1) Use then entire MF sensor without having to source low-volume specialized sensors or wasting the top/bottom sensor area that doesn't get exposed on a normal sensor
2) Makes full use of the allowable area for the sensor
3) Have a true panoramic camera that has better resolution than one with the same sensor and cropping the image into a panorama
4) It'd be something truely unique and one of a kind for photographers
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5) It wouldn't directly compete with the Leica DRFs
6) It would make all the existing leica DRF users drooling
With some pretty basic image transformation software, you can essentially replace the role of the anamorphic projection lens and do the reverse transformation digitally. That way, you:
1) Use then entire MF sensor without having to source low-volume specialized sensors or wasting the top/bottom sensor area that doesn't get exposed on a normal sensor
2) Makes full use of the allowable area for the sensor
3) Have a true panoramic camera that has better resolution than one with the same sensor and cropping the image into a panorama
4) It'd be something truely unique and one of a kind for photographers
Edit:
5) It wouldn't directly compete with the Leica DRFs
6) It would make all the existing leica DRF users drooling
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