Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/04

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Subject: [Leica] What are the rumours around Leica and Photokina? WAS : Leica annual report
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:09:31 +0200
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Maybe the important part of the quote is "it won't be a digital SLR FROM 
LEICA"

If some other company is thinking of a body that can be used with any 
number of legacy mounts, they could be on to a good thing.

A full-frame digital body with interchangeable (or optional) mounts for 
Leica-R, Pentax-K, Contax/Yashica, Minolta, Nikon, M42, Miranda etc, etc
could well find a market.

There are millions of rarely used good lenses out there. Adapters are 
only a stop-gap solution.

I'm thinking along the lines of an FF version of the new modular Ricoh 
camera (GXR)

Cheers
Douglas



On 04.08.2010 13:29, Tina Manley wrote:
> But Leica also said repeatedly that a digital M was impossible ;-)
>
> Tina
>
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Geoff Hopkinson<hopsternew at 
> gmail.com>wrote:
>
>    
>>   Why would they want to compete in the sharkpool of dSLRs. Keep
>> an eye out for whatever the 'suitable solution' proves to be for owners of
>> R
>> lenses but Leica has said repeatedly that it won't be a digital SLR from
>> Leica. I'm sure that they would sell some to R lens owners but they're not
>> convinced that is a sufficient demand on its own. With apologies to the
>> Doug
>> Herrs of the group ;-)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Geoff
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>
>>
>> --
>>      
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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