Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is said to be very true. And I would suspect this means that the "digital M" is a good 3 to 5 years off. Consider - - -Leica's detailess M announcement, coupled with its acknowledgment of fiscal difficulties, obviously came in response to the pending release of the news of the Epson-Cosina Leica M mount camera...which it looks like we should be calling the Digital R2 - - -Leica acknowledged in its announcement that it does not yet have in hand the necessary sensor technology for the camera it plans to build, but says that it should now be developable (real word?) - - -Leica does not even hint at how long the development will take. Therefore - a couple of predictions - and, yes, Greg, I AM making this up, I am making a prediction, based on the facts we have - 1. Leica had no real plans to develop a digital M but put out this news because they couldn't figure out how else to deal with the coming Cosina camera; 2. Leica may still have no plans to develop this digital M, but may be saying they do in order to sell bonds in order to keep the company afloat long enough for the digital R to emerge and hopefully bail them out; 3. IF Leica is going to develop a digital M - and I sincerely hope they are - it is eons off, as they need to develop a sensor before doing anything else. Meanwhile - I wonder when the digital R2 will be out, what it will cost, and what the lens multiplication factor will be. ;-) B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of howard cummer Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:59 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Re:Digital Bessa R2 >Dear Luggers, I am only on the Digest so please forgive me if someone else has already reported this; http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0213/pma05.htm I wonder if it is a hoax. If it isn't and Epson and Cosina have got together to produce a digital R2 which takes Leica M lenses, then Leica is really in a run for its money. Does anybody know about the truth of this. If true Mr Kobayashi should be congratulated! What does Tom A know? Cheers Howard (in warm sunny Hong Kong) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html