Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What is today's date? Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com on 4/1/04 5:25 AM, Dante Stella at dante@umich.edu wrote: > I saw the same article - you left out that part that due to new > efficiencies of scale, the Leica model will cost HALF of the RD-1's > $3800 price. > > On Apr 1, 2004, at 7:42 AM, Richard F. Man wrote: > >> According to a Lecia web forum, Leica is buying the Epson R-D1 >> technology! They claim that this will allow them to ship the digital M >> by the year's end, instead of in 2006. They have a crash team adapting >> their 10 Megapixel full frame sensor to the R-D1 body and release it >> as Leica R-D1 by Photokina. The team that was working on the original >> Leica Digital M will continue to work on R-D2, that uses the Leica M7 >> body instead o the modified Voigtlander R2. Due to this buyout, Epson >> will not be releasing the R-D1 as announced :-( Of course we will have >> a full frame camera instead of the 1.5x crop factor so this is good >> news indeed. >> >> Apparently the deal only works because Epson couldn't see how they can >> sell the R-D1 into this niche market. So instead of just dropping the >> whole project, they cut their losses and struck a deal with Leica. >> There are some rumors that Epson bought out the Hermes shares of Leica >> (30%) at 200% premium to make the transaction appealing to Hermes, but >> there's no independent confirmation for now. >> >> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, >> please use richard@imagecraft.com) >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > ____________ > Dante Stella > http://www.dantestella.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information