Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/30

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Digital M??
From: Photo Phreak <leicam4pro@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:57:44 -0700 (PDT)

- --- "Beddoe, Neil" <nbeddoe@lehman.com> wrote:
> This might not be as daft as it seems.  The thing that's put
> me off buying
> digital is the fact that the whole camera will obsolete in a
> few years.  If
> manufacturers built digital backs that could be attached to
> normal cameras
> I'd bite.  That way, you could keep your camera and just
> upgrade the back.
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> There's theoretically nothing to stop a savvy manufacturer
> building a gizmo
> that allowed you to replace the back flap of an M6/7(or any
> other SLR) with
> a digital unit in place of the pressure plate. 
> 
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Oh yes there is.  In fact there are three things:

1.  Profit motive.
2.  Planned obsolescense.
3.  "Not invented here"

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