Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> At 7:54 PM -0500 11/1/09, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >> Seen on the Photography Bay site: >> >> Word on the street is that the Leica >> X1<http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/650518-USA/Leica_18420_X1_Digital_Co >> mpact_Camera.html/BI/1141/KBID/1447> >> sensor >> is manufactured by Sony - and that same sensor is set to be placed in an >> upcoming (and as-yet unannounced Nikon camera). More specifically, the >> sensor is 23.6 x 15.8mm with 12.2 "effective" megapixels. 13 million >> pixels >> in total sit on the sensor. At recent press event in Singapore, Sunil >> Kaul, >> regional director of Asia Pacific for Leica Camera AG spilled the beans as >> to the sensor's origin and its future home inside a Nikon camera, which he >> "cannot disclose." >> >> So if the X1 manufacturer is not Leica, perhaps it is Nikon. >> >> Larry Z >> > > > Sony sensor. Leica built. Nikon nothing. > -- > > * Henning J. Wulff Yes and what was that middle part again! "... Leica built...." Mark William Rabiner