Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually they said it would be announced at Photokina, and start delivering in december from the very beginning. Gene Two things...That messages doesn't say it WILL start shipping in April, it says they "assume" it will start shipping in April. Keep in mind that they "assumed" it would start shipping at the time of Photokina. Then they "assumed" it would start shipping in January. Now they "assume" it will start shipping in April. My assumption is that they choose the word "assume" because if they fail to ship in April, they can say that it was only an assumption on their part that the product would ship then. As to the rest of the announcement - one would hope that for $5000 for less than one-half of a 35 mm camera it damn well would be near perfect when it shipped. This isn't some crappy Canon D20, with which one gets an entire autofocus camera along with the digital guts; this is a Lieca digital back. :-) -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank Filippone Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 1:37 PM To: Leica-Users-Group Subject: [Leica] Digital R Back delay Confirmed today is the delay of the back. They will not start shipping till April. "At product introduction we announced that a serial production was planned for December 2004. We regretfully must inform you that we will not be able to adhere to this plan. We now assume that the first deliveries will be in April 2005" "A need for additional programming has surfaced. " " Based on the fact that it is rightly expected of us to fulfill the expectations and to produce a near perfect product, then this can be seen as the only right decision." Its not that I disagree, but the expectation that the software needs to be nearly perfect before start of shipping is kinda scary...... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net 1 _______________________________________________ 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