Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/11

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Subject: [Leica] Surprises at Photokina
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (wildlightphoto@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Sep 11 01:05:35 2008

David Shavin <david@shavin.com.au> wrote:

>I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a Full frame R10 digital body (to
>complement my M8) but fear, (from my selfish perspective) from mutterings
>reps "down under", that it will be a medium format Hasselblad competitor
>priced for professionals and out of my league as an amateur.

I am also keeping my fingers crossed for a field-usable camera compatible 
with R lenses, however if the new Leica reflex is a larger format I suspect 
this won't be a small sector for long.  There are suggestions that Nikon is 
developing a 40 MP 48mm x 48mm camera:

http://www.photographybay.com/2008/09/04/nikon-mx-format/