Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/01

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Subject: [Leica] Leica is buying the Epson R-D1 technology!
From: mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura)
Date: Thu Apr 1 12:16:35 2004
References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040401043614.041c59f8@192.168.100.11>

>According to a Lecia web forum, Leica is buying the Epson R-D1 
>technology! They claim that this will allow them to ship the digital 
>M by the year's end, instead of in 2006. They have a crash team 
>adapting their 10 Megapixel full frame sensor to the R-D1 body and 
>release it as Leica R-D1 by Photokina. The team that was working on 
>the original Leica Digital M will continue to work on R-D2, that 
>uses the Leica M7 body instead o the modified Voigtlander R2. Due to 
>this buyout, Epson will not be releasing the R-D1 as announced :-( 
>Of course we will have a full frame camera instead of the 1.5x crop 
>factor so this is good news indeed.

I want to confirm this. In addition, sources say that Konica-Minolta 
is also putting in some of their technology developed for the Leica R 
series into this new  camera.

Sources have it that it will be released as the : R2-D2 model

Karen Nakamura




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Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/

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