Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Latest RF Rumors
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 23:33:59 -0800

><Snip> 
> - Nikon will finally introduce its RF camera.  But get this, the first camera
> they introduce will be a reproduction of the S3 from the fifties!  How more
> retro can you get?  A more modern RF will follow.
> 
> I cannot guarantee the accuracy of these predictions, but my source has been
> "right on" in the past and just returned from Japan last week.  Only time
> will tell.
> 
> Bill Rosauer

This last S3 prediction is the most suspect for me, Bill because it seems to me
that would have to sell for big as in big bucks to a market they are not keyed
into dealing with.
I would guess $2600. Seems like Nikon would just go ahead with a rethunk
rangefinder probably Electronic.
Mark Rabiner