Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: digital back for F5
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 16:42 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)

Nigel wrote:

> I'm sorry I have no idea.  I saw someone using one at a road race.  I
> believe I also read something about it somewhere.   I'm very
> digitally-illiterate.

Both Kodak and Nikon-Fujix make digital bodies based on Nikon SLRs. None
of them are based on the F5.

As far as I know there isn't an add-on digital back for the F5, and the F5
based digital which *may* be coming from Canon (rumoured to be called the
DCS620), is three months away at least.

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