Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/20

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Subject: [Leica] Leila's April 24th announcement - place your bets!
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:39:07 -0500 (EST)
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They may still look for bribes ;-)

Alastair
> On March 20, 2014 at 10:54 PM Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>
> I would settle for an Oly/Fuji with a 400mm f4 or so equivalent lens + a
> dedicated 1.4x TC - just to avoid weight and being blackmailed for bribes
> by customs in East Africa! (-: Your 80-400 seems a good second option,
> though!
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:08 AM, afirkin <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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