[Leica] Surprises at Photokina

[afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin)]

You share my thoughts and wishes: all the rumours are of a 40mp camera: 
bound to be far to xpensive at least in the short term.

--- david@shavin.com.au wrote:

From: David Shavin <david@shavin.com.au>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Surprises at Photokina
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:50:07 +1000

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.

David Shavin


Neal Friedenthal On 11/09/08 2:01 PM, "Neal Friedenthal"
<neal@nairobisafari.com> wrote:

> Our Leica Rep came in today and although he couldn't be very specific he 
> did
> say that there should be some major surprises at Photokina.  He did confirm
> the M8.2 and said that it had the new shutter
> which is as quiet as the M6, also a new view finder with slightly more
> magnification to make the bright frames more accurate. Other than that and 
> the
> fact that there will be some new P&S cameras
> coming from panaleica he would say nothing more, fact is on pain of legal
> action he could say nothing more.  So we'll have to wait to see what the 
> "big
> surprise" is.
> NF
> 
> 
> 


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