Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/14

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Subject: [Leica] Say Hello to Hermes Leica -- THE Photog's FashionStatement
From: grduprey at rockwellcollins.com (grduprey@rockwellcollins.com)
Date: Thu Oct 14 10:30:35 2004

As my memory recalls, down to a man on the Lug here, a crop factor would 
not be acceptable for the Leica Digital M.  So try another argument.

Gene




"B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> 
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10/13/2004 11:46 AM
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This is one where we obviously won't agree - there have been crop
factors with digital from the beginning - and the buying public has been
accepting the crop factor. I don't consider the LUG, a group largely
made up of gearheads committed to a 50-year-old film camera design, to
be reflective of the attitudes of the buying public. ;-)

But as we both know - we're not going to agree on this one.

Best

B. D.

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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Douglas Herr
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:43 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Say Hello to Hermes Leica -- THE Photog's
FashionStatement


B.D., whether they accomplished the "impossible" or not is a discussion
we don't need to re-hash.  Everything is possible if costs are ignored.
And, they didn't accomplish this astounding feat "at a time when Leica
and all the traditionalists said it couldn't be done".  They
accomplished it 3 years later, when technology reduced technical
barriers and after the buying public was conditioned to accept a crop
factor.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


-----Original Message-----
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Sent: Oct 13, 2004 9:32 AM
To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: RE: [Leica] Say Hello to Hermes Leica -- THE Photog's
FashionStatement

Which means they accomplished the "impossible" - at a time when Leica
and all the traditionalists said it couldn't be done, in three years
from start to having it in consumer's hands. Interesting.

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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Joseph Yao
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:03 PM
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Say Hello to Hermes Leica -- THE Photog's
FashionStatement


on 13/10/04 10:54 pm, Douglas Herr at telyt@earthlink.net wrote:

> So, how long was Epson/Cosina working on this before they made it
> public? What's the inside scoop, B.D.?

Epson told me the project began in 2001.

Joseph

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