Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/17

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Subject: [Leica] contax guessing game...
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Sep 17 05:52:41 2004

As I said - well, think I said anyway, as I have been loaded up on pain
killers for a couple days now ;-) - I'd be willing to bet we're talking
about a re-badged Epsonica R-D1 or a digital G2/3. I must say I'd be
very tempted by a digital G3, assuming that it had a brighter
viewfinder. Obviously it would be greatly improved with real manual
focusing, but I can't imagine that's going to happen. But as someone
said yesterday - I think - 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Richard F. Man
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:29 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] contax guessing game...


Someone claims that someone on the Contax list discovers yet another
teaser 
pic:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000&message=10304572

Zeiss nameplate, with what looks to be a rangefinder window!!!

Now if it is digital.....

At 07:57 AM 9/15/2004, Richard F. Man wrote:
>In case you are not aware, Contax has been running teaser pic, with the
>caption: "Back With Passion" for the last week. A new piece of puzzle 
>every two days. Here's the URL 
><http://www.zeiss.de/C12567A8003B0478/Contents-Frame/89C4BAA59688E580C1
256EEB00495E6A> 
>DPReview news forum has a thread on it.

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly,
please 
use richard at imagecraft.com) 


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