[Leica] Re: Nikon's profits tripled

[grduprey at rockwellcollins.com (grduprey@rockwellcollins.com)]

BD

How did the $4990 back become a $7000 back?  Also, I would not be wanting 
to swap it back and forth every day anyway.  I would suspect that most 
users will dedicate one R8/9 to digital and another to film.  If they did 
not have 2 R8/9's then they would probably use it for one or the other and 
very seldom switch back and forth several times during a shoot.  As I 
understand it, the problem comes with keeping every thing clean and the 
chance of some clutz of a user damaging the back from changing it 
constantly or in a hurry by not using the protective cover when storing 
it.  Or the hinge wearing out due to excessive changing of the back, 
easily fixed I would think anyway.

Gene


Except that Leica's $7K? digital back is not intended to be swapped on a
regular basis, according to a post here recently. What it really looks
like is they decided to produce half a digital SLR figuring that the
loyalists would be willing to accept that. Nikon's, I would guess, will
be truly swappable - IF they produce one.

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[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Rick Dykstra
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Nikon's profits tripled


All those gold contacts on the R8 were reputedly for the autofocus. 
Remember how the R system was going to get autofocus, via a moving back 
for the R8?  1998, that was.  As soon as I heard it was off the agenda 
I went out and bought an F5 and a 300, just for sport.  Now Nikon have 
turned copy-cats, with a digi-back F6?  Geez, it'd make sense for it to 
be compatible with the F5 - that's the way Leica would do it.  And one 
of the reasons I'll stick with Leica.


On 18/11/2004, at 10:21 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> On 11/17/04 12:32 PM, "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> typed:
>
>> If anyone wants to place a small wager, I'll bet that within six to 
>> 18 months Nikon will, in fact, introduce a digital back for the F6. 
>> In fact, I'm convinced that's why they're introducing the F6 in the 
>> first place.
>
>
> Well soon someone will have one in hand and check for all kinds of
> funny
> gold contacts.  Although I'm not sure if anyone ever saw them on the 
> R8.
>
>
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/
>
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