Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/22

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Subject: [Leica] Digital R Back delay
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Mon Nov 22 12:01:19 2004

My mistake...I had understood it was to be available at or shortly after
Photokina...well, I'm sure everyone will eagerly await April
delivery...Perfect timing - people can use their President Tax Rebate to
purchase the back....

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
grduprey@rockwellcollins.com
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 2:57 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: RE: [Leica] Digital R Back delay


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


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Replies: Reply from rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Digital R Back delay)
In reply to: Message from grduprey at rockwellcollins.com (grduprey@rockwellcollins.com) ([Leica] Digital R Back delay)