Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>According to a Lecia web forum, Leica is buying the Epson R-D1 >technology! They claim that this will allow them to ship the digital >M by the year's end, instead of in 2006. They have a crash team >adapting their 10 Megapixel full frame sensor to the R-D1 body and >release it as Leica R-D1 by Photokina. The team that was working on >the original Leica Digital M will continue to work on R-D2, that >uses the Leica M7 body instead o the modified Voigtlander R2. Due to >this buyout, Epson will not be releasing the R-D1 as announced :-( >Of course we will have a full frame camera instead of the 1.5x crop >factor so this is good news indeed. I want to confirm this. In addition, sources say that Konica-Minolta is also putting in some of their technology developed for the Leica R series into this new camera. Sources have it that it will be released as the : R2-D2 model Karen Nakamura -- Karen Nakamura http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/