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Subject: [Leica] fourthirds news from Leica
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Mon Mar 6 12:35:50 2006

Live view has nothing to do with the lens - it's a feature on both the new
Olympus E330 and the new Panasonic body; although the Olympus live view LCD
swivels up, and the Panasonic doesn't. The IS is something unique to the
Leica lens, and is obviously a selling point.


On 3/6/06 2:11 PM, "bruce" <bruce@ralgo.nl> wrote:

> Olympus already has a very similar lens, 14-54 ?2.8-3.5 ....... so
> what is seemingly being offered is the Leica name + the other
> functions in the fourth paragraph of the URL, image stabilization and
> live view.
> 
> B.
> 
> 
> On 6-mrt-2006, at 19:13, B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> Leave it to the marketing morons at Leica to fail to point out that
>> their
>> lens can be used on not one, but FOUR Olympus DSLR bodies. But hey,
>> why
>> would they want to sell more lenses? Let's maintain the exclusivity
>> until we
>> go out of business, right? :-)
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/6/06 12:42 PM, "bruce" <bruce@ralgo.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> If you have not received the confirmation, please view:
>>> http://www.leica-camera.com/unternehmen/presse/data/04866/
>>> index_e.html
>>> 
>>> B.
>>> 
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