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Subject: [Leica] Leica digital M lenses - really!
From: per at visimedia.com (Per Claesson)
Date: Thu Apr 1 07:50:53 2004

So many wonderful things that happen all of a sudden today. What a 
blessed day!

/Per

torsdagen den 1 april 2004 kl 15.36 skrev Christopher Williams:

> I just got an email from my friend in Japan. It seems Leica is already
> starting to make digital M lenses. He was in Japan Camera where a 
> Leica rep
> had some plans for digital M lenses. The photos included a 16/2.8, 
> 24/2.8,
> and a 60/2. Also they were talking about a soon to be released 6mp 
> digital M
> followed by the FULL FRAME 10mp M to be released in 2006. I guess 
> Leica is
> going to try to compete with the Epon RD-1 soon!
>
> Both cameras will take SD cards, SanDisk confirms a 6gb card with 90x 
> write
> speed. Cost around $399 in 2005.
>
> My friend is supposed to email me back later with more news. He had 
> heard
> more on the Leica Digital R. Very, very cool!!
>
> Here's some of the designs for lenses:
>
> http://www.zoeicaimages.com/html/leicam_jp_org.html
>
> Chris
> New Orleans
>
>
>
>
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