Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What are you smoking? If they last long enough to actually sell the first Digital M, it will be, in true Leica fashion, archaic by standards with other digital cameras. If they really wanted to sell a digital M, they could rip the guts out of a cheapo digital P+S and bolt them into the M body of choice. It would eave the RF intact, but get the digital capture parts in there. It would be a start. Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net Come what may, tsunami or digital, Leica will survive on the quality of their lenses. Leica's market is the pro and advanced amateur. An M digital body can't be priced outside the M line now. In the classic Leica business plan, along with the digital M the system should include very high quality software, printer, reader, DVD-RW drive, papers, field storage battery DVD drive, maybe even a PC. The digital M should have an LCD viewer second to none. And that great horizontal shutter curtain. And an innovative set of zoom lenses intended for use with that back-mounted LCD viewer. One more thing: A true B&W mode. And the type of battery system used in the D70! Bob _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information