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Subject: [Leica] for those interested in future Leica developments
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 21:26:32 +0100
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Thank you Geoff, I hope remember this in the future and don?t ask it again,

Cheers
Lluis 


El 15/11/2013, a las 21:08, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> 
escribi?:

> Lluis APSC  (or APS-C) is a common term to describe a sensor size with a
> common crop factor of about 1.5X.
> 23.6mm x 15,7mm.
> Cameras like the Fuji X series or the Leica X series or amateur model Nikon
> D-SLRs for example.
> 
> So smaller than the M8 with crop factor of 1.3x
> but larger than micro four thirds with a crop factor nearly 2x
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> 
> 
> On 16 November 2013 04:04, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Geoff, but I don?t know what is a sensor APSC?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Lluis
>> 
>> 
>> El 15/11/2013, a las 05:39, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
>> escribi?:
>> 
>>> CEO Alfred Schopf visited Australia recently and provided an interview to
>>> Paul Burrows, editor of 'Camera' magazine here. It's a very good local
>>> publication and I thoroughly recommend this article (and the magazine) in
>>> their Nov/Dec 2013 issue to anyone who can obtain it.
>>> You can get it as a digital edition apparently at
>>> www.zinio.com/camera
>>> 
>>> I think that I can quote small portions of particular interest here
>> without
>>> transgression. Perhaps the complete interview will become available?
>>> 
>>> All direct transcriptions from parts of answers by CEO:
>>> 
>>> ..."to be honest, I'm not 100 percent sure where the D-SLR market is
>> going
>>> to be in the future. The mirrorless cameras are coming on and on and on
>> and
>>> I'm not entirely convinced that in ten years time we will have a D-SLR
>>> market"
>>> 
>>> When asked will there ever be a Leica compact system camera:
>>> 
>>> "We will have one, definitely. And it will, of course, be quite different
>>> to M system. We want to have autofocus with such a system and we may well
>>> have an APSC size sensor rather than a bigger one......."
>>> 
>>> Getting back to Leica's plans for a CSC, Alfred states:
>>> "It will be a German built camera, however I'm not sure we can make all
>> of
>>> the lenses made in Germany because we are talking about a different price
>>> range to M system so I could imagine that we do some fixed focal length
>>> lenses in Germany and maybe with the zooms we will co-operate with a
>>> partner"
>>> He stresses that Leica won't be building on Panasonic's Micro Four Thirds
>>> format.
>>> 
>>> On film cameras, Alfred Schopf  said:
>>> "We are now the world's biggest manufacturer of film cameras on the
>>> planet- because we are the only one, more or less. As long as we get
>> orders
>>> we will continue. At the moment we get between 600 and 700 orders per
>>> year............"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Geoff
>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>> 
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