Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Longevity of Leica products
From: Dennis Painter <dennis@hale-pohaku.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:01:42 -0800
References: <NEBBJDFBIKOBILIKPPBNGECELOAA.red735i@earthlink.net>

Plenty of gates in todays FPGAs to roll your own microprocessor inside the FPGA.

Frank Filippone wrote:

> To control the shutter in the M7, you need to have ( in this day and age) a
> uP.. it may be not too fancy, but it is  in there some place.....
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
> > I think the M6,7 etc are all analog!
>
> I do believe there is some digital in the M7, simply because it displays the
> shutter speed using 7 segment LEDs, and typically, those are driven
> digitally.
>
> Austin

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