Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] My Patent Runneth Over Dept. (digest V26 #199)
From: "Michael E. Berube" <MEB@GoodPhotos.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:17:54 -0500

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:38:53 -0800 (PST),  BD quoth unto the boundless Leica Users digest Ether...
>What would be really, truly cool would be if someone - Leica with
>the digital M would be perfect - would deliver on the promise Kodak
>made and broke and produced a true b&w digital. Kodak supposedly had
>a b&w version of the 760,  a camera which would produce 18 mgp
>grayscale files with better resolution than, say, tri-x because
>there wasn't grain.
>But it basically proved to be vaporware. But a digital M that could
>do that?
>Now THAT would be a truly evolutionary, as well as revolutionary,
>camera. ;-)

Indeed. I'd find it perverse yet highly enjoyable to shoot a 6+MP image on a Digital M with my 1952 Summarit LTM on a Gandy procured LTM>M adapter!

Carpe Luminem,
Michael Eric Berube
GoodPhotos.com

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