Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/03

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Subject: RE: [Leica] The LEICA DIGILUX 2 is announced
From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 00:13:53 -0500

Kit,
Amazingly heavy yes.  Whatever that element is next to Uranium that
isn't radioactive must be in the glass as it is as heavy as the lead bar
we used to keep around to make bullets for the black powder 44.  Amazing
also in how much that brick will bend light.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Kit
McChesney
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 12:07 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] The LEICA DIGILUX 2 is announced

One thing I think may separate this from the other one, is that the
glass
likely contains a Noctilux formula, so I've heard. Not sure yet. Time
will
tell. 

Ever seen Noctilux glass? I mean, not in a lens, but in a chunk in your
paw?
Amazing stuff!

Kit



- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Clive Moss
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:14 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] The LEICA DIGILUX 2 is announced

Kit McChesney said the following on 12/3/2003 8:51 PM:

...

> One  can't separate in some clean way the "exact" cost of creating a
single
> camera model, as though it were created solely in a vacuum,
uninfluenced
by
> other business costs not necessarily "directly" related to the product
being
> built.
Yes, one can, closely enough. That is what cost accounting is all about.
> It isn't just the "other" guy's camera with a red dot
> on it! 
...
It actually is, as far as I can tell. Leica seems to have had major 
input on specs -- but they do not build it -- or do they? All of Leica's

previous digitals have been the "other" guy's camera with a red dot.

This is not knocking Leica's approach to the D2 (or was it 
Panasonic's?). Building a digital camera that handles like a film camera

is not a bad idea. Where is Cosina when we need them for digital?

- -- 
Clive
http://clive.moss.net

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