Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/14
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I quite agree, I expect the market would be even tinier than that for the
M9, OTOH maybe the development and tooling cost would be low enough for
their amortising to be feasible, as it clearly never was for the R, sadly.
FD
On 14 Mar, 2012, at 21:17, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Sounds absurd. If I want B&W, I just do it in post-processing. Why would
> you pay for a crippled camera? Back in the film days, would you buy a
> camera that only took B&W film?
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Photo at frozenlight.eu
> (sent from somewhere)
>
>
> On 14/03/2012, at 20.50, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> wrote:
>
>> When I read the headline, I mmediately it's one of those gag posts where
>> they basically describe an "analogue" Leica M by disguising it using fancy
>> modern day terms ("replaceable full frame sensor done by users"!) but then
>> it's not:
>>
>> http://leicarumors.com/2012/03/14/rumor-the-next-leica-m-camera-will-have-a-black-and-white-sensor.aspx/
>>
>> Not sure how much legs there are in this.
>>
>> But if they do...
>>
>> Oy...
>>
>> --
>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>>
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