RE: [Leica] Latest from "Deep Throat" Leica - Digital Back Specs

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Okay - Let's assume for the moment that everything here is correct. What
this all adds up to is:

1. A 10 mpg manual focus digital camera that costs $6000 new, or $5000
with a used body.

2. A 10 mgp digital manual focus camera that is not only not designed to
be a digital camera, it is a Rube Goldberg contraption.

3. A 10 mgp digital camera that will come out, at best, a year to 18
months from now, by which time the standard - for those of you who
eschew anything but the finest conceivable image quality - will be at
least 15, if not 20 mgp.

4. A 10 mgp digital camera 12-18 months from now that does NOT have a
full-size sensor - and weren't a good number of you explaining to me
recently why anything less than a full-size sensor would spell Nikon's
demise?

5. A camera LUGers will be lining up to buy, using, and pronouncing it
to be producing the best images they have ever seen.

SHQGTM!

:-)

B. D.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Edward
Caliguri
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:01 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Latest from "Deep Throat" Leica - Digital Back Specs


Hello one and all-
    Just got some more "tid bits left on my front porch in an old
mayonnaise jar" to borrow a phrase. Looks as if the following is true-
    1- It will be a Back for the R8/R9 (Pick up a mint R8 now for about
$1000.00 USA if you want a whole camera!)
    2- But you'll have a year or so before it hits the shelf - so you
can save and take your time.
    3 - it will be a 10 to 11 mega pixel, 1.3x magnification factor
(like Canon's 1D) and the company IMACON (!) - the folks that make those
great high end scanners - will assist in manufacture of the sensor,
software etc. That's pretty good news!
    4- Possibly a new 16mm or 17mm lens will be announced in 2004 fall
designed for it.
    5- Leica "will take great effort" to make sure that the quality of
Leica glass is noticed with this new sensor (whatever that is) which
includes not only a new angle on what of and how the sensor will be
made, but the firmware itself. 
    6- BEST --- it should be around --- $4000.00 USD

For the rest, we all have to wait for the chat. If another Mayonnaise
Jar appears, I'll let you know (unless, there's just mayonnaise in it!)
:-)
    Ed

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