Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/24

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Subject: [Leica] digital R question
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (feli)
Date: Wed Nov 24 10:31:38 2004

It proabaly was a lot easier and cheaper for them to develop the R-Back 
first. That way all they had to
concentrate on was the sensor, electronics and software. For Leica a good 
way to get their feet wet in
anticipation of doing the real thing. Maybe Leica will come up with somekind 
of modular digital only camera.
It would make sense for them. That way they wouldn't have to retool 
(expensive!) everytime they come out with a new camera. 

Baby steps B.D., baby steps. ;-)

feli

 

-----Original Message-----
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Franky, given Leica's financial position and utter lack of marketing
acumen, I think that even at this point they'd be better off announcing
that they were scrapping the DMR and putting all the development thus
far into a dedicated digital body for R lenses. They simply haven't got
enough of a market for a back AND a manual focus DSLR. The DSLR is where
they should have been going from the beginning...


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