[Leica] Now: ex P&S shooter back to Leica M

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

Rob

No newer news except that the existence of Leica is unsafer than ever.

The digital M is still scheduled for Photokina 2006, but considering the 
9-months delay of the DMR (announced for Photokina 2004, in the shops June 
2005), dont expect it before mid 2007, or even later. It's said to have the 
same sensor as the DMR, with a 1.37 crop factor, but things might change in 
two years. It will be a entire camera body, not a back like the DMR.

Cannot confirm that it will be called "MD". I doubt it because there 
already was a Model Leica MD in the early sixties - a M3 (or M1) without 
range/viewfinder, for microscopes and repoduction photography. There was a 
MDa and MD-2, too.

But maybe Leica "DM"? or "MX"?
What about a LUG bet for the digital M's name?:-) The winner gets one...

Didier




>I have been off the Lug for some time and have not kept up with the latest 
>Leica news. Is there any progress on the "Digital M" that I'm sure many of 
>us want? I heard from a most unreliable source that it will be announced 
>at Photokina next year and will be called the Leica MD.
>Any comments?
>Rob Heyman