Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/23

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Subject: [Leica] Is Oly Watching? The 6 MP Breakthrough?
From: Afterswift at aol.com (Afterswift@aol.com)
Date: Thu Dec 23 10:45:53 2004

Shown only in prototype form and behind glass at PMA this year Epson has 
today fully revealed their R-D1 'Rangefinder Digital Camera'. This camera 
has come 
out of a collaboration between Epson and Cosina, it supports Leica M mount 
and L mount with an adapter and has a six megapixel APS size sensor with an 
output image size of 3008 x 2000 pixels (which sounds to me like the sensor 
used 
by Nikon in the D100 & D70). Epson's timing for this announcement is the 
2004 
Photo Expo to be held in Tokyo between 19th and 21st March. This 
announcement 
has received a lot of attention from the Japanese websites who have lots of 
images of the camera, see inside for links.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0403/04031101epsonrd1.asp