Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, care to comment on the leadtime between the Mamiya ZD being announced to the world and actually being available to purchase ;-) That Mamiya rep is pretty bold making statements about Leica given Mamiya's recent position in the market place. >From what I read the company was for a long period, reported as variously on life support, out of MF, resuscitated, about to take the world by storm and who knows what else! Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ Maike Harbets speaks on the S2. .... So we will drop down this technology to our other systems. Our priority is to modernise the R system which will be in the end an R10, definitely. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Mark Rabiner Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:51 To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Mamiya ZD camera..... Another point the Mamiya guy made at the Mamiya booth in response to the Leica S is that it is A PROTOTYPE; Which means they don't work. And that the window was 18 months. By then I'd have changed my name twice and made a trip around the world in a canoe! mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:57:19 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Mamiya ZD camera..... > > The all-in-one ZD camera seems to be basically a no-show. It was a > star of the 2004 Phorokina, but they didn't get out any working models > for a while, and I don't think it ever shipped as a production camera. > I saw a couple, and each one was a bit different and still > 'pre-production'. > > By now technological advances have passed it by, and things like the > DL28 make a bit more sense. > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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