Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. sure... http://www.zoeicaimages.com/html/leicam_jp_org.html Steve