[Leica] Re:In the hands of its engineers, not bean counters

[FELIXMATURANA at telefonica.net (Félix López de Maturana)]

>I don't think their defects on new items is any higher than others, just 
>publicised and beat upon more when they occur, because of their historic 
>quality reputation.  Remember the DMR is not out, not because of 
>>operational or  >reliability problems, but because the firmware is not 
>quite perfect for their reputation.  Remember Canon's EOS digital line 
>still has firmware problems as has been reported here, but no one bitches 
>about it like they do when Leica has a hickup.  If Leica had put the DMR on 
>the market back in December with the >firmware not right, we would be 
>hearing the complaints pouring out of the woodwork.  
>Remember the Digilux 2 and all the complaints about it the first few 
>months?  
>And then when it was tried by some of us, they found it was a very good 
>>camera 
>for most all conditions.

>Gene



Gene

Every digital reflex camera has problems when launched! This is the 
reason of updating firmware and generally affects to minor defects 
and/or secondary features not working in the appropriate manner. I 
remember when first Nikon DSLR cameras had to be sent to Nikon for 
firmware updating. But I suspect that such a delay in the launching of 
DMR cannot be due to minor firmware retouchs but something more 
important. When we have it in our hands we'll be able to make a deeper 
judgment. Meanwhile just waiting. If it comes from a Imacon and Leica 
collaboration for sure it has to be a good product but the problem is if 
it can be a little bit late as others are well place in the race and 
Leica users who are using other digital bodies with Leica R lenses *and* 
sometime use other lenses realize that the superiority of Leica R lenses 
is certain but not so big..

Felix