[Leica] DMR wins award

[dorysrus at mindspring.com (Don Dory)]

The ever present rumor market has the DMR with firm deposits at
something like the first years production.  Of course, we don't know
what the production pace is, but with the 50 ASPH sold out and the DMR,
maybe Leica has some cash coming in.

Depending on price, I think that the new LHSA offering this year will
also sell a few hundred Leica bits.  :)

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

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[mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Rick Dykstra
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 8:27 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] DMR wins award

Reliable fairies  have told me that the DMR will be upgradeable, with a 
better sensor, in due course.  To me that would be very attractive.  
Makes good sense too.  The DMR as it is should remain competitive with 
what one wants from a digital capture machine for quite some time, but 
upgradeability would help keep up with the Joneses.  I think they might 
sell quite a few.

Rick


On 08/03/2005, at 11:14 AM, Frank Filippone wrote:

> The fact that the Canon or Nikon will mount a Leica R lens is 
> important,
> however there is a big BUT.
>
> The fact is that you lose all AF, all AE ( shutter priority only if 
> there is
> a choice), and all auto Diaphragm operation.  Most of the AF and AE 
> can be
> lived with, but there is a big negative in non auto stop down 
> operation.
> Using a lens in the manual iris mode is a royal pain in the behind.  I

> am
> surprised none of our members here have pointed it out.  Sure, there 
> is no
> issue if you use the maximum F stop of the lens, but it you want or 
> need to
> stop down, you just cannot get it done conveniently, and certainly 
> much more
> slowly.  Sure, there are those that do it, but ask them if they prefer

> to
> manually stop down or have auto stop down.  ( take away the issue of 
> digital
> capture.)
>
> The R9/8 + DMR will be a ( limited) success just for this reason.  How

> long
> it will last remains to be seen based upon the reliability of the 
> camera,
> the quality of the capture firmware, and the trust that the camera 
> will be
> repairable when it does need repair.  ( and the expectation of the 
> customer
> as to the length of time they expect the camera to be competitive with

> what
> they want to do.)
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
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