Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/16

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Subject: [Leica] LFI Leica executives interview, the ultimate speculation thread
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Mon Feb 16 15:15:25 2009
References: <200902161333.n1GDXFPm007032@server1.waverley.reid.org> <6BE4CD06-F7B9-4083-AAD4-28722C177E02@optonline.net> <36172e5a0902161432v7aaae35ewa2b5e987c04cf1c4@mail.gmail.com>

Perhaps at last the the Leica/Minolta CL or the Minolta CLE in digital 
form? We can but hope.

But let's wait and see if Zeiss doesn't get there first. Their film RF 
is VERY reminiscent of the CLE.

Cheers
Douglas

Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
> There are a number of hints from Dr Kaufmann implying a cheaper M mount
> camera, not to supplant the M8 though. Leica does share with Matsushita as
> we know. Certainly possible Leica may market a version. I can't speak about
> other countries but here Panasonic has thus far positioned their four 
> thirds
> products to be too expensive. Technically clever certainly. But the G1 for
> example is almost twice the price of the Olympus E420. That makes no sense
> to me. I do think that micro four thirds is a logical development. For any
> future M, an optical finder with a different frame-line system I can
> understand. An EVF like the G1 horrifies me personally. In my opinion a G1
> with red dot (? la the D-Lux and C-Lux) will not appeal to traditional 
> Leica
> customers. But a smaller M mount camera priced lower than the M8 may well
> do.
>
> 2009/2/17 Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net>
>
>   
>> On Feb 16, 2009, at 8:33 Geoff wrote:
>>
>> Kaufman: What would happen if we were to reinvent
>>     
>>> the viewfinder, moving beyond just optical? What if an automatic lens
>>> recognition mode were capable of always displaying the corresponding
>>> frame?
>>>
>>>       
>> Looks like Panasonic beat you to it with the G1. Why not just affix the
>> Leica red dot to the Panasonic G1 camera the way Leica did with Fuji and
>> older Panasonics. Call it the M9 Junior.
>>
>> Larry Z
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] LFI Leica executives interview, the ultimate speculation thread)
Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] LFI Leica executives interview, the ultimate speculation thread)