[Leica] LEICA could be clever

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Feli,
you are right about the cloth shutter, at last years Photokina Leica said 
that a 
digital M would retain the size and looks of the classic M body, would have 
a 
crop factor as close as possible to full frame (later they said 1.37 a la 
DMR?) 
but that the shutter assembly would have to be a totally different 
construction.
Douglas

Feli wrote:

> My guess is they are about halfway there, so if they can hang in there 
> for another year, we may be in luck.
> I'm convinced that a lot of the R-Module guts, software and the sensor 
> could be carried over. Engineering the body should almost be the easiest 
> part for them, they already have the RF, mount and a good part of the 
> metering system.
> I'm guessing the cloth shutter will go to the great darkroom in the sky.
> 
> 
> feli
>