[Leica] Say Hello to Hermes Leica AND crop factor

[feli2 at earthlink.net (feli)]

Well, contrary to popular opinion, I'm going to make a wild guess here 
and
say that some preliminary research has been going on for a few years.
I really don't think they are a complete bunch of idiots. For one thing 
I believe
that they feel that it has to be full frame, and it's really only been 
in the last
year that full frame chips have matured and come down enough in price
to make it a viable option for them. I think they can scrape by for 
another
year and half and well see something quite good. I downloaded the hires
test images from the R-Module and they look pretty damn good. If the 
high
ISO pics hold up they may have something really special.

Feli

On Oct 14, 2004, at 7:35 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> If they don't get it right with the digital R and sell a boat load of
> them they won't be around to produce the digital M. They're already
> losing money, and the R line has been a loser for a number of years. So
> they're not in a position to screw around. If they'd been smart, they
> would have started work on the digital M back when Cosina reportedly 
> did
> - rather than tell everyone that such a camera was an impossibility -
> and have it out by now. Because the M is where the potentially huge
> market is. But that would have taken a modicum of marketing savy. ;-)


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