Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/06

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Subject: [Leica] Sad news for Flexers
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 22:00:25 -0700
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On Mar 6, 2009, at 7:48 PM, Doug Herr wrote:

> Steve Barbour wrote:
>
>> what is unfortunate, even sad, is that they can offer only talk and
>> vague promises to develop the R line in the form of the R10, in the
>> future...
>>
>> The R10 is less than convincing, and true to tell,  it is unclear
>> whether they are working on the R10...or only talking about it.
>
> Much of this was written about the DMR in the time between its  
> announcement and when it hit the market.  One prominent LUGger even  
> labeled it 'vaporware' after I had held one in my hands.  Leica has  
> followed through on their promises in the past, I see no reason to  
> doubt them now.


remember that they have not announced it, they announced that they  
were going to start work on it....

for all of us,  hope springs eternel....

in the meantime...

>> The R10 is less than convincing, and true to tell,  it is unclear
>> whether they are working on the R10...or only talking about it.


Steve



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> Doug Herr
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