Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe the important part of the quote is "it won't be a digital SLR FROM LEICA" If some other company is thinking of a body that can be used with any number of legacy mounts, they could be on to a good thing. A full-frame digital body with interchangeable (or optional) mounts for Leica-R, Pentax-K, Contax/Yashica, Minolta, Nikon, M42, Miranda etc, etc could well find a market. There are millions of rarely used good lenses out there. Adapters are only a stop-gap solution. I'm thinking along the lines of an FF version of the new modular Ricoh camera (GXR) Cheers Douglas On 04.08.2010 13:29, Tina Manley wrote: > But Leica also said repeatedly that a digital M was impossible ;-) > > Tina > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Geoff Hopkinson<hopsternew at > gmail.com>wrote: > > >> Why would they want to compete in the sharkpool of dSLRs. Keep >> an eye out for whatever the 'suitable solution' proves to be for owners of >> R >> lenses but Leica has said repeatedly that it won't be a digital SLR from >> Leica. I'm sure that they would sell some to R lens owners but they're not >> convinced that is a sufficient demand on its own. With apologies to the >> Doug >> Herrs of the group ;-) >> >> Cheers >> Geoff >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >> >> >> -- >> > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >