[Leica] Down Loading M8 firm ware update.

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

It's really not that big a deal for Leica to do. First of all, I 
believe they say it *may* be possible to swap sensor later on.

Any case, Leica charges $5500 for the base M8. So for $1800, they 
would swap the shutter and the LCD out. Well, since the camera is 
assembled by hands anyway, it's relatively a no brainer to do.

Since the M8 doesn't have autofocus, mirror box, and all the other 
complicated stuff, it is a pretty simple modular system: the body 
shell, the rangefinder, the shutter, the sensor, the LCD, the 
electronics. Swap at will, they sure charge enough for it :-)

At 01:01 PM 2/4/2008, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>So the word is out as of now that an upgrade might involved evolving to full
>frame from the 1.3 cropped format in there now. They can just do that.
>Just plop a bigger sensor in.
>
>So an M8 would truly be a camera "for life"
>Which is the words they are using. And I'm buying it.
>

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