Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/24

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Subject: [Leica] E: digital R question
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)
Date: Wed Nov 24 16:02:01 2004
References: <20041124232513.87241.qmail@web50506.mail.yahoo.com>
 
> I'm only guessing -- not relying on inside info -- but
> I suspect that a great deal of the R&D costs and the
> very high selling price of the DMR has to do with the
> fact that this is a component that had to be designed
> to interact and meld with a pre-existing 35mm film
> camera.


I doubt it. I studied industrial design and it's a lot more work to 
design a
camera from scratch than making a back for it.

feli

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