Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: "Chris Williams" <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> > Someone needs to kick Epson's/CV butt for not making a Epson R-D2! This > camera is > awesome. Maybe the best solution would be for Solms to launch a downgraded, low (middle!) priced digital M, just in the same spirit as the CL. Standard mass-produced sensor, etc at about half the price of a M8-2. Remember the CL and CLE brought many new people to Leica's customer base (I was one of them). Another example was Pentax's Spotmatic 500, which was a downgraded Spotmatic 1000 without self-release. To make it look like a downgrade they replaced the shutter speed barrel with one from 1sec to 1/500 but the (unmarked) 1/1000 was still operative, and meter-coupled. Here in Europe in the early 80s, Opel sold their entry level Kadett D with a 4 speed gearbox which was actually a 5 speed with an internal plate preventing from using the 5th speed - came cheaper than redesigning a 4 speed gearbox. The main idea would be to sell an affordable digital RF that encourages investing into a couple of Leica (or CV or Zeiss) lenses which in their turn encourage into buying the real M8. My own story was CLE -> M2 -> M6 -> M8 and a pretty set of lenses. Just ideas... Jean Jean Louchet APIS - INRIA Saclay research centre 4 rue Jacques Monod 91893 ORSAY Cedex France ---------------------------------------------------------- jean.louchet@inria.fr http://jean.louchet.free.fr/ ----------------------------------------------------------