Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]it looks like to be a zoom aps-c type camera? remember minilux and minilux zoom!! On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>wrote: > We could take bets. > We need to learn to see not what's OUTSIDE the box > We need to learn to see not what's INSIDE the box > Me I'm putting it in writing right here that I think its a full frame > compact Leica. > The Leica X series has been put in a shadow by the Sony full frame compact > NEX RX1. This is not a position Leica is going to let itself be in very > long. > They are going to keep the X series a 1.5 crop and come up with a new > series > for the full frame. > Perhaps the Y series! > Then we have Leica X Y chromosomes and coordinates both! > > To me this is history which just had not gotten around to happening yet. > And > will happy July whatever. > If we were sitting around a table with our cameras stacked in the middle > with a pitcher of beer and a pizza it would be less of a deal as its just > blowing off words. But this is words in writing on the LUG. > And in the release date I'm looking forward to doing an "I told you so" > thing. In the least annoying way possible of course. > And starting to save up for one. > > As far as price point goes the X2 goes for 2 grand > The NEX RX1 goes fro three grand. > I think the Leica full frame compact Y Chromosome might go for $3,400.9 > USD. > It would not be seemly for them to undercut Sony. > If its interchanble glass it could go for 4 grand. > In other words; a lot more than the bulk of us are going to spend with our > toy cameras are just great mentality. > > > On 5/25/13 1:05 AM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Soo not much George I guess ;-) except of course for the cadre of folks > who > > have some clues as to what is inside the box....... No end of speculation > > elsewhere. > > Regarding my rumour remark, I was just talking in general about the link > > being to a rumour site. No offence meant to you. Not all of the list > > follows the official Leica sources regularly ;-) > > > > > > *Breathe in, breathe out, move on* -- Jimmy Buffett > > > > NO ARCHIVE > > > > Cheers > > Geoff > > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > > > > On 25 May 2013 13:54, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > > > >> Yes. I receive the announcements. > >> I didn't say or suggest it was a rumor. > >> Though I, nor anyone else that I know or have read on any list, > >> Has a single spec on the "M mini M" > >> Nice looking box. > >> > >> S-o-o-o-o w h a t ? > >> > >> a note off the iPad, George > >> > >> On May 24, 2013, at 8:35 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >>> It's not a rumour, George. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad