RE: [Leica] Oh ... It's COMING SOON! :-)

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

That's true - in terms of supporting the user base. Of course the
question is - how much of the user base, having invested in the glass
and the bodies, can afford to pay such an extraordinarily high price for
a digital add-on - to only the R8-R9s...don't forget, buy doing this,
they will NOT be support the user base with all the earlier reflexes -
YOU folks would have to pay, what $1600-2000 on TOP of the cost of the
back? So you'd be paying almost $10K for a digital 35 mm camera that
isn't full-frame, when you can get an amazingly good Canon 10D
for...$1500? Is that really supporting the user base?

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Gary
Williams
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 3:40 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Oh ... It's COMING SOON! :-)


In the past 10-15 years every camera maker has abandoned its manual
focus users and introduced a new auto-focus mount, making its previous
incarnation of lenses obsolete.  (OK, Nikon did not entirely abandon its
manual focus mount, but is now having problems mating its autofocus
mount to full frame digital).  There is some very good and relatively
inexpensive previous generation R glass (60mm Elmarit, 90mm Elmarit,
180mm Telyt to name three) that will work very nicely with a digital
body.  Beats the heck out of buying new glass or a whole new system.

If Leica can pull this off---introduce a digital back or digital camera
and not change the existing R mount---I say Leica is AHEAD of the curve,
at least in terms of supporting the initial investment of its user base.

"Imagine" that.

Gary




- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Laurel" <jplaurel@nwlink.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Oh ... It's COMING SOON! :-)


> $7500 for a 10 megapixel camera with a 1.3x chip.  What possible 
> reason could anyone have for choosing something like this over the 
> EOS1Ds?  Good old Leica, behind the curve as usual.
>
>
> >     The R DIGITAL - the Rd, or RD
> > As they all say, it will come in the form of a replaceable $7,500.00
> around
> > 10 megapixel  '1.3X multiplier' size chip, CMOS in nature. 
> > Essentially,
> you
>
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