Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/04

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Subject: [Leica] What are the rumours around Leica and Photokina? WAS : Leica annual report
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 08:20:49 -0400 (EDT)

Douglas Sharp wrote:

>Maybe the important part of the quote is "it won't be a digital SLR FROM 
>LEICA"

IIRC their statement was that it won't be an SLR and it won't be made by 
Leica

>If some other company is thinking of a body that can be used with any 
>number of legacy mounts, they could be on to a good thing.
>
>A full-frame digital body with interchangeable (or optional) mounts for 
>Leica-R, Pentax-K, Contax/Yashica, Minolta, Nikon, M42, Miranda etc, etc
>could well find a market.
>
>There are millions of rarely used good lenses out there. Adapters are 
>only a stop-gap solution.
>
>I'm thinking along the lines of an FF version of the new modular Ricoh 
>camera (GXR)

I'm thinking the same kind of thing.  An R-only solution would have a 
limited market; a camera that can use a variety of lens mounts would have 
much broader market appeal, allowing much lower unit cost.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com




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