Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/31

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Subject: [Leica] S2 release dates and prices
From: dennis at hale-pohaku.net (Dennis)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:08:09 -1000
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Frank Filippone wrote:
> I am curious.... if there is another solution to use R lenses digitally, 
> but
> not an SLR, then what?
Frank. Geoff didn't say "not a SLR"

Geoff, see below, said Stefan Daniel said "no digital SLR camera by 
Leica..."

I understood him to mean Leica would not make it, the words "by Leica" 
implying someone else would.

I can't see the R glass being usable on anything but a SLR type camera.


Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>
> On R10, I was sitting there when the decision was announced. I listened to
> Stefan Daniel. I understand enough German to confirm the translation
> provided to me.
> "There will be no digital SLR camera by Leica and no R10. But there will be
> and we are working on this, a suitable solution to allow the use of R 
> lenses
> digitally....
> Nothing to do with the S2. Not before next Photokina".



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