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

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Subject: [Leica] Say Hello to Hermes Leica AND crop factor
From: gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)
Date: Thu Oct 14 19:13:57 2004
 
Emanuel Lowi writes in part:
> 
> This is just a wild guess, but I wonder whether Solms
> decided to keep the R line going and developed the R
> digital back before tackling the digital M because:
> 
> 1) They saw a relatively quickly viable way to adapt
> an existing product (the R8/R9) to the new technology,
> rather than design a whole new camera.
> 
That and a hoped for increase in R8/9 camera and R lenses sales. Which I 
believe has happened.

Regards,

Greg
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