[Leica] Petition for R10

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Frank,

by whom, according to your information, is the Leica X1 then actually 
being built?

And where did you get the information that the S2 stole the resources 
from some never really corroborated R10 development, with the exception 
of a casual remark by Leica at the last Photokina that more or less said 
it would pick up on the size of the R7 rather than the R9.

The R-system was very much on the slippery slope even before the digital 
revolution and the economic crisis came along - a dead end if ever there 
was one - the development of a digital-R should have been started as 
soon as the R7 appeared, but, even back then, Leica was in a very 
precarious financial situation (as they still are today).

Cheers
Douglas