Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug, This would indeed work, but I am not sure if they could make a body that would work with any lens and have auto aperture function, and aperture info integrated into the body electronics, since the manufacturers have such diverse methods (read - gone out of their way) of doing this. If this was doable, the adapters would be very expensive, to get just these two items available to the body. Cheers, Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 9:04:09 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Leica] New R Solution? Why should Leica as a company bother at all? Market demand would be highest from people with legacy lenses of all sorts of brands and mounts, Not just Leica R. Just a simple, basic, manual focus digital camera with a full frame sensor (or as Sonny mentioned 36x36) a shutter, some kind of exposure metering and some way of getting aperture information to the electronics. Then top it off with something like that ZigView thing as a monitor you can mount on its hot shoe. Get rid of all the bells and whistles and get it right down to bare essentials - like Cosina did with the Bessa-L. Make it a "lens with a camera on the back of it" concept, not a high-tech, fully-everything body for lenses Build it with a register that lets it take almost any brand of lens you can imagine and offer it with a range of (interchangeable?) mounts. Just the thing for people with Canon FD, Minolta, Nikon, Contax/Yashica, Pentax-K, M42, Olympus, Leica R and whatever other lenses you happen to have lying around. I would buy one like a shot. What is needed is a consortium of camera companies to work on it to keep development costs low (like they did with 4/3). Then the introduction of a lens refurbishment/exchange/s/h sales system where people can send in their legacy lenses and have them serviced or taken in part payment for modern lenses (if they don't want to go the way of a new platform for old lenses). This would generate new sales, increased customer loyalty for all participating brands and create a dynamic market for CLA'ed second hand lenses with a manufacturers warranty - and would make almost everyone happy. No need to switch your favourite brand, an excellent customer relations pitch and a great way to get some excellent glass back in use. Just my couple of euro-cents on the matter Douglas On 07.09.2010 15:23, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote: > If they would give us a 24x36 format and a decent price range then great, > I don't care about size of the body as long as it was easy to handle. > > Gene > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Rabiner"<mark at rabinergroup.com> > To: "Leica Users Group"<lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 12:07:39 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central > Subject: Re: [Leica] New R Solution? > > There is just no reason why it would have to be 4/3's 2x crop it seems to > me. What we are talking about is camera body configurations and they really > don't need to be format specific. They could build an medium format digital > D-lux 6 Texas point and shoot if they were in the mood. And I'm sure some > day they will be. > > To me the most obvious format for the R system glass is the format it was > built to cover. 24x36. If they build it we will come. But for 40,000 > smackeroo's it wont be too many of us if it was medium format. > There is not such 24x36 format COMPACT cameras yet. But tomorrow I just > around the corner. > Tomorrow is today if you stay up late enough. > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > mark at rabinergroup.com > > >> From: Gene duprey<grduprey at mchsi.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 23:31:42 -0500 (CDT) >> To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] New R Solution? >> >> >> A 4/3 solution, of which already more or less exists, is not a solution I >> would ever consider, and would be a total waste of excellent R optics. If >> this is what they expect us to accept, then I will be converting my R >> lenses >> to Nikon mounts when my R8DMR dies. >> >> Cheers, >> Gene >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Geoff Hopkinson"<hopsternew at gmail.com> >> To: "Leica Users Group"<lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Monday, September 6, 2010 9:32:30 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central >> Subject: Re: [Leica] New R Solution? >> >> If this hinted solution eventuates and proves to be micro four thirds >> based, >> you may want to avoid the internet forums for a couple of weeks! The >> pitchforks and torches will be out in force. I cannot imagine any hard >> core >> R user being satisfied. I think I'd be adapting my glass to Nikon or >> Pentax >> or Canon instead. The other rumour of course is something based around the >> X1 sensor but it is entirely specualtion and wishing, as far as I know. >> >> My bet is for something new in the M world where nearly all of their focus >> is. >> >> >> Cheers >> Geoff >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >> >> NO ARCHIVE >> >> >> On 7 September 2010 09:54, Robert D. Baron<rbaron at concentric.net> >> wrote: >> >>> It still may be coming. For you R users, as they used to say in the >>> southern U.S., "Don't sell your Confederate dollars just quite yet". >>> >>> >>> http://www.echenique.com/index.php/2010/09/05/leica-drops-another-photokina-h >>> int/ >>> >>> >>> http://leicarumors.com/2010/09/06/leica-acknowledges-development-of-new-syste >>> m-camera-r-solution.aspx/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. 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