Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/19

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Subject: RE: [Leica] The M7 (again!)
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:48:18 -0500

THAT is the proverbial $64K question. I was speaking with another LUGer the
other day who speculated that PERHAPS the electronic shutter was being put
in the M because that might then give Leica what it needed to produce what
would amount to a digital back - imaging a digital capture unit that would
fit into the back door area, with more electronics, etc. that would sit
below the camera, a bit like the Kodak digitization of the Nikon F5 - If you
didn't care about having a "traditional" LCD viewing screen, you might then
have a digital rangefinder using M lenses...and there would be no reason why
an LCD couldn't fit into the hot shoe, connected by a short cord to the
bottom unit, which would allow viewing images as soon as they were taken.

Just total, utter, speculation - and I know, Jim B., it would be a total
piece of shit that would produce images unworthy of Leica - in fact they
would be images unworthy of being called photographs of any kind. :-)

B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Frank
Filippone
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:29 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] The M7 (again!)


Misdunderstanding cleared up...... A personal comment.....

I think the change in the shutter is the most important feature to
watch...... What could it do for us in the future?

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net

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