Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/02

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Subject: [Leica] What are the rumours around Leica and Photokina? WAS : Leica annual report
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 06:36:55 +0200
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Tropical-wood covered M9 (sourced from sustainable producers, of course).

Not enough special editions lately.

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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YNWA





On Aug 3, 2010, at 4:28 AM, Tina Manley wrote:

> No improvements on the M9 and certainly not the M8.  The solution for the R
> lenses would be fantastic but I'm not sure how profitable it would be for
> Leica.  That would be the bottom line.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:25 PM, mehrdad <msadat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> no m9.2 as richard said, they are hot
>> 
>> what else is left in the m lenses to update - none. almost everything is
>> new
>> i think the oldest is the 90/apo. may be a new tri-elmar?
>> 
>> they were also talking about a solution for the R lenses
>> 
>> some more s2 lenses to show (not new) announced
>> 
>> panasonic is rolling out lx5 so the new leica lx5
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I know nuthin', but I doubt M9.2 or digital back. No money in either -
>> they
>>> sell as many M9 as they can make already.
>>> 
>>> A lower cost (e.g. $3000) M8.3 that has the same features of M8.2 minus
>> the
>>> sapphire glass may make sense, financial wise.
>>> 
>>> M10 will probably come in 3 years.
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Vick Ko <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> What are the rumours around Leica and Photokina?
>>>> 
>>>> More lenses?
>>>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
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