Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leica already has an excellent reflex system for interchangeable lenses. It's called the Visoflex. Rather than graft a digital back onto an R8, why not create a digital body for the Visoflex? You could then choose between 90 degree VF (optical) or (with mirror lock-up) an LCD screen on the back of the digital body. The design constraints would be fewer than with having to fit something into an R8/R9 body shell and it would be upgradeable because, when the next generation X MP back is available, you would have a component-based technology which would allow people to upgrade the parts they find necessary. There is an excellent line of lenses, superb macro capabilities, and it appears to be in keeping with Leica's preoccupation with its past. Too bad the R lenses don't fit ;) M. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html