Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It seems B.D. that the only basis you have for your guess it a perpetual anti-R prejudice as vitriolic as the one you presume I have for Leica-R. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com on 11/17/04 6:34 PM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote: > LOL! And tell me that you didn't all assume, until you were recently > informed otherwise, that you wouldn't be able to swap the DMC or DC3, or > whatever its being called, any time you wanted to. And now it turns out > that if you switch backs on a regular basis the unit that only costs > $5000 can be expect to die within a couple years. > > As I said...LOL... > And I have, by the way, made absolutely no claim to have any factual > basis for my theories about what Nikon is up to - other than looking at > what they have done in the past, and the way their new film camera is > configured. But then I forgot that this isn't a place devoted to truly > endless speculation about what Solms will or won't do in regard to > virtually every camera and piece of equipment its ever made or thought > of making... > LOL... > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > JCB > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:42 PM > To: lug@leica-users.org > Subject: [Leica] RE: Re: Nikon's profits tripled > > > Correct Doug! If one has a Leica R8/R9 and interested in the R digital > back, one would not be interested in a Nikon digital back regardless of > how > swappable it is! People typically don't plan future photography systems > based on hearsay and innuendo. > > JB > > > At 04:19 PM 11/17/2004, Douglas Herr wrote: > >> B.D., the DMR - Leica's digital back - is about $5,000, not $7,000. >> And >> why are you guessing the hypothetical Nikon digital back will be truly >> swappable? Is there any basis for this guess? >> >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com > >> "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: >> >>> Except that Leica's $7K? digital back is not intended to be swapped >>> on a regular basis, according to a post here recently. ... Nikon's, >>> I would guess, will be truly swappable - IF they produce one. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information