Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 type digital camera ! ?
From: Pierre Charbonneau <charbonneaup@videotron.ca>
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 13:26:17 -0400

This story sound like the one on Costa-Rica's bananas...... I do not
believe it.

Pierre

Ted Grant a *crit :

> The following arrived this morning on the screen!  True? False?
> Whatever? Just thought the more astute of you involved in digital
> cameras and electronics might be interested.
>
> This isn't a creation of my imagination, as I'm sure there will be
> several others on the LUG who received the same message.
>
> ted
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Subject: New: Leica digital M6 camera !!
>
>  News from a friend at Leica Germany.
>
>  They will announce in 3 weeks that they will produce a little bomb that
> will be a revolution in the Leica *M* world...
>
>  The Leica M6D, with a 10Mpixel CCD (Super CCD from Fuji like ?).
> They could produce such a high res CCD because they discard
> color information... It's a B&W only CCD !
>
>  Leica realized that 95% of the M owners were loading their
> camera with B&W films.
> ============================================
>
> Your call folks!
>
> ted