Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/01

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Subject: [Leica] Leica is buying the Epson R-D1 technology!
From: jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Thu Apr 1 06:39:50 2004
References: <0926AB59-83E0-11D8-BBAA-003065D6E648@umich.edu> <BC915B3B.16DFC%telyt@earthlink.net>

You mean Leica DIDN'T admit that all of their lenses since 1984 have been 
made by Konica?

At 07:38 AM 4/1/2004, you wrote:
>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)
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> >>
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> >
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In reply to: Message from dante at umich.edu (Dante Stella) ([Leica] Leica is buying the Epson R-D1 technology!)
Message from telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] Leica is buying the Epson R-D1 technology!)