Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] Re:Leica has bought Sinar
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Mon Sep 25 07:34:05 2006
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20060925130331.0308a368@screengang.com>

The Sinar M digital series reminded me of the now defunct Leica D1?. Digital
body that could accept many lenses and digital backs sort of a la carte.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Didier Ludwig"
Subject: [Leica] Leica has bought Sinar


> The Leica bei Meister Newsletter I just received states that Leica
> AG, Solms, has buyed 51% of the Sinar shares previoisly owned by Jenoptik.
>
> Swiss company Sinar http://www.sinar.ch/ is famous for it's
> professional solutions for the medium and large format photography.
> It's former owner Jenoptik http://www.jenoptik.com is the company
> that implements the kodak sensor and software in the M8.
>
> Would could this mean? Leica entering the digital medium/large format
> area? All I can say is that's it's positive sign that Leica is able
> to buy another company and not the other way round.
>
> Didier



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