Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/31

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Subject: [Leica] So a Full Frame M Digital is coming soon???
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:36:47 +0200
References: <027a01c9b28c$e24ecb30$80f510ac@chris0436b6050> <440b792d0903312257l4c29895eu942bcf2ef995d381@mail.gmail.com>

And a happy April first to you all too :-)  :-)

mehrdad wrote:
> yeah, there were showing this camera @ PMA behind closed door, i played
> around with it for a while. pretty nice. leica for sure has spent a lot of
> R&D money @ the right time, when the market comes back, they are going to 
> do
> well if they are around
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Chris Williams <
> leicachris at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> So this was an interesting evening. My wife and I went down to the French
>> Quarter to see some clients and then get some dinner at Napoleon House. We
>> were there eating and this pretty well known photographer sits across the
>> room from us. Now he has people with him so I don't want to bug him. I
>> notice he has an M8 with him and he taking photos around Napoleon House. 
>> So
>> I get up to go to the bathroom, figuring on the way back I'd mention what
>> camera he's using.
>>
>> So I came back and mention "that's a great camera your using, M8 huh?"
>>
>> "Yes, sort of"
>>
>> "Oh the new M8.2"
>>
>> "Well, no. It's sort of a prototype"
>>
>> "Wow"
>>
>> "Let's just say a 50mm is now a 50mm"
>>
>> "Holy crap!"
>>
>> I think he had the new 18mm on there but I'm not 100% sure. If that's the
>> case, he's really shooting wide once again on a Leica M! He would not 
>> really
>> say anything else about the camera. It was all black, no red dot, no white
>> lettering where the M8 should be.
>>
>> So here's a grab shot from my wife's iPhone of the two of us, you'll know
>> the face well.
>>
>>
>> www.zoeicaimages.com/Untitled-1.jpg
>>
>>
>> Chris
>> NOLA
>>
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In reply to: Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Chris Williams) ([Leica] So a Full Frame M Digital is coming soon???)
Message from msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad) ([Leica] So a Full Frame M Digital is coming soon???)