Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] Re:Photos of M8 now D2x
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Sat Aug 26 18:37:19 2006
References: <082620061403.27034.44F054A10006C8340000699A219791299503010CD2079C080C03BF970A9D9F9A0B9D09@mchsi.com><008e01c6c921$78d24df0$0a01a8c0@MacPhisto> <9b678e0608261827y731aaacfv77b6b9d8a76ad326@mail.gmail.com>

I think the Thailand factory has helped with production runs, but again this
company is not nearly the size of Canon. Yes, Nikon's history of announcing
products and delivering products is around a 6-12 month difference.

The FF rumor was brought up again "supposedly" from Nikon Japan reps saying
that the DX lenses would be fully useable on a FF Nikon using a D2x-like
sensor cropping system.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Dory" Subject:Photos of M8 now D2x


> Christopher,
> I think that they are just rumors as the full frame lens stable is a
little
> bare at the Nikon Cookie store.  Yes, a good outfit of 17-35, 70-200 is
> quite desireable.  But, considering that Nikon can not fill orders for the
> 18-200 and is introducing the 18-135 and a rather good 75-300 ED VR I
don't
> expect any new lenses this time around.  Heck, even the rather fabulous
but
> non-mainstream 100 Macro is hard to come by.  Considering Nikon's history
of
> not being able to build quantities of new items I think the D80 will tap
> them out for a while: although preorders for the D80 are running pretty
> slim.  Possibly by PMA will we see something astonishing.
>
> Don



Replies: Reply from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Re:Photos of M8 now D2x)
In reply to: Message from grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com) ([Leica] Re: Photos of M8 -- Price?)
Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] Re: Photos of M8 now D2x)
Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Re: Photos of M8 now D2x)