Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01

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Subject: [Leica] RE: Digital Leica M
From: JCB <jcb@visualimpressions.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 17:07:47 -0700
References: <200309011918.MAA24584@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

At 12:31 AM 9/2/2003 +0200, Félix López de Maturana wrote:

>I rather believe that Leica could produce a new rangefinder digital body
>that would use the M lenses. I think that Austin Franklin has, many
>times, explained the impossibility of adapting a working digital captor
>to a M body for the angle incidence of the light on the sensor, I think.
>But as one of the big values of the M line are the M lenses, a new body
>could be manufactured from scratch able of using the M lenses and
>keeping the general aspect of the M body. The bigger the sensor the
>better...Just my opinion...
>
>Felix



Great opinion... Bad science... Worse business decision...

JB

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