Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've read that Nikon is making the camera, I also heard Panasonic.... but that may or may not be correct. They are all rumors.. The differeing question is... do you really believe Leica is building a $2K camera with lens and 12MP sensor? Themselves? In Germany/Portugal/EU? Has anyone visiting the Leica factory seen the X1 being manufactured there? We have videos and personal tales of the M9 being made in Germany. But the X1? NADA. The S2 uses resources. My opinion is that the focus should have been on the Digi-R. So, my comment that the S2 stole resources from the Digi-R. Did they start/stop/ever think about a Digi-R? Maybe, but if they had followed what I believe is a #1 priority, the Digi-R, the resources were misdirected to the S2. As a film camera, they were way behind the 8 ball.... features lacking all over the place. But optics? #1. The market for a digital SLR something that takes R lenses and uses the full AE, etc, would be quite robust..... the market for another high end MF DIgi camera, in a field of entrenched manufacturers, with no installed base of lenses available to set the stage (see the Hasselblad V Line), is significantly smaller, and in my opinion, may really not exist beyond the really rich amateur. And thus my choice for R+D expenditures.... Digi-R. Frank Filippone red735i at earthlink.net 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