[Leica] M9 reviewers drawn from the "unwashed masses"

[red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)]

I think we have a basic, and deeply different, point of view.

I believe there is a big ( in Leica terms) market for a Digi-R.  Do they
have to develop it themselves?  No.  The camera must accept R mount lenses,
and be digital capture.

Get someone else to do the R+D on one of their own Digi-bodies, private
brand the thing "Leica", and adapt the  mount to the R lenses.

No AF

This is not that hard......and it does not have to be priced at $25,000.

And now you have a new market for the world's best SLR lenses......put them
back into production......

It costs a lot less to keep your current customers then it does to get new
customers......

Frank Filippone
red735i at earthlink.net


But we -know- the R market is tiny compared even to the M market. The  
R8 almost bankrupted the company.