Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What makes you beleive it will be greatly improved? A FF sensor does not mean it will work any differently, just have a larger sensor. Personnaly Larry, I think you should just flip a coin, heads you stay with film, tails you buy the M8. Simple. gene -------------- Original message from Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net>: -------------- > Will there be an M9? > > "- You're asking for an announcement that we haven't made yet. If you > continue counting, it would be the logical next step. As > official statement I can't say anything. But imagine this: if you > were a Leica developer and you found a way - I'm using the > Speculative - to fit a Full-Format sensor, and the crop-factor drops > off, then you'd do it, wouldn't you?" > > WOW - wait till we hear the postings on this one. The Leica marketing > department must be tearing out it's hair. Nothing kills present > product sales like announcing a new and greatly improved model before > it is ready to ship. The flip side is that perhaps it is ready to > ship for the holiday season - and this was a pre announcement to > gauge potential interest. > > Have a nice Labor Day weekend (for US Luggers only). Of course as a > recent retiree, Labor Day is only a state of mind. > > Larry Z > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information