Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/01

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Subject: [Leica] More rumors about Leica X1 manufacturer.
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:38:23 -0500

> At 7:54 PM -0500 11/1/09, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
>> Seen on the Photography Bay site:
>> 
>> Word on the street is that the Leica
>> X1<http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/650518-USA/Leica_18420_X1_Digital_Co
>> mpact_Camera.html/BI/1141/KBID/1447>
>> sensor
>> is manufactured by Sony - and that same sensor is set to be placed in an
>> upcoming (and as-yet unannounced Nikon camera).  More specifically, the
>> sensor is 23.6 x 15.8mm with 12.2 "effective" megapixels.  13 million 
>> pixels
>> in total sit on the sensor. At recent press event in Singapore, Sunil 
>> Kaul,
>> regional director of Asia Pacific for Leica Camera AG spilled the beans as
>> to the sensor's origin and its future home inside a Nikon camera, which he
>> "cannot disclose."
>> 
>> So if the X1 manufacturer is not Leica, perhaps it is Nikon.
>> 
>> Larry Z
>> 
> 
> 
> Sony sensor. Leica built. Nikon nothing.
> -- 
> 
>     *            Henning J. Wulff


Yes and what was that middle part again!
"... Leica built...."






Mark William Rabiner





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