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Subject: [Leica] Leila's April 24th announcement - place your bets!
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:07:05 -0500 (EST)
References: <CF412D57.19717%mark@rabinergroup.com><CF412F79.19719%mark@rabinergroup.com> <1882639029.943704.1395362289908.open-xchange@bosoxweb05.eigbox.net> <FA09348635FB4D8C9234F90F3524E2CD@syneticfeba505>

You are right. I did not dream about the price ;-) but I would love to have a
real alternative to the big 2 for sports/wildlife. Just perverse I suppose. 
Its
great to be home and working on images rather than at work. I've got a few 
days
to process and 'LUG' around ;-)

Hope you are well

Cheers

Alastair

> On March 20, 2014 at 9:03 PM tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:
>
>
> Alastair my dear friend you didn't have a dream it was a nightmare!!!!! :-(
>
> Besides it would only cost $32,000. in whatever currency you wish to use!~
> :-) :-)
>
> Only movie stars and ner do wells could afford them! We poor peasants
> would be Leica-less once again! :-)
>
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-) ;-)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "afirkin" <afirkin at afirkin.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leila's April 24th announcement - place your bets!
>
>
> > Coming home from Africa I dreamed that:
> >
> > New Leica would be APC or FF sensor, 24 or 36 megapixels (size and
> > performance
> > dependant) AF, inbody IS, Sensor cleaning, EVIL, and with superb AF
> > tracking and
> > 10 FPS or so. ie able to really compete with NiCanon wildlife specs in a
> > smaller
> > (read age friendly size) with lenes up to 800mm. Now is that too much to
> > ask ;-)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Alastair
> >
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