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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 type digital camera ! ?
From: "Roy Zartarian" <royzart@connix.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:39:48 -0400

Someone also posted this announcement  on Phil Greenspun's 
photo.net on April 1. Since there was no subsequent mention on 
the LUG until now, I viewed the information with skepticism.

Roy


On 8 Apr 00, at 6:58, Ted Grant wrote:
>
> 
> 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.