[Leica] Re: Nikon's profits tripled

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Except that Leica's $7K? digital back is not intended to be swapped on a
regular basis, according to a post here recently. What it really looks
like is they decided to produce half a digital SLR figuring that the
loyalists would be willing to accept that. Nikon's, I would guess, will
be truly swappable - IF they produce one.

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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Rick Dykstra
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:00 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Nikon's profits tripled


All those gold contacts on the R8 were reputedly for the autofocus.  
Remember how the R system was going to get autofocus, via a moving back 
for the R8?  1998, that was.  As soon as I heard it was off the agenda 
I went out and bought an F5 and a 300, just for sport.  Now Nikon have 
turned copy-cats, with a digi-back F6?  Geez, it'd make sense for it to 
be compatible with the F5 - that's the way Leica would do it.  And one 
of the reasons I'll stick with Leica.


On 18/11/2004, at 10:21 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> On 11/17/04 12:32 PM, "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> typed:
>
>> If anyone wants to place a small wager, I'll bet that within six to 
>> 18 months Nikon will, in fact, introduce a digital back for the F6. 
>> In fact, I'm convinced that's why they're introducing the F6 in the 
>> first place.
>
>
> Well soon someone will have one in hand and check for all kinds of
> funny
> gold contacts.  Although I'm not sure if anyone ever saw them on the 
> R8.
>
>
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/
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