[LRflex] Re: IMPORTANT: Re: DMR Support, all together now. please read

  • From: "Dr. Elliot Puritz" <drpuritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:01:10 -0500

Do I understand Bill that an R10 prototype is already in the testing stages?

Elliot
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From: "William Abbott" <wbabbott3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [LRflex] Re: IMPORTANT: Re: DMR Support, all together now. please 
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> Dear Mehrdad,
>
> Thanks. When a door closes behind you, another door opens in front of
> you.
>
> I believe I have just been inducted into the Ancient and Honorable
> Society of Leica R10 Prototype Testers, with all the rights, duties,
> and privileges pertaining thereto.
>
> As ever,
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2007, at 9:10 AM, mehrdad wrote:
>
> ok here is a link to rob galbraith's site
>
> http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-8736-8825
>
> looks like DMR is done.i still want the 1.3
>
> On 2/4/07, drpuritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <drpuritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> As always, thanks for the detailed and informative reply David.
>>
>> Elliot
>>>
>>> From: David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: 2007/02/04 Sun PM 12:41:06 EST
>>> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [LRflex] Re: IMPORTANT: Re: DMR Support, all together now.
>>>   please read
>>>
>>> Elliot wrote:
>>>> I'd be interested to hear from all of the very accomplished and
>>>> pleased DMR users.
>>>> Now I wonder about the R10.
>>>>
>>>> As an aside, I am visiting family in Boston and I stopped in at
>>>> Newtonville Camera, one of my favorite
>>>> "old time" photo stores.  Interesting to know that they are sold out
>>>> of M8 cameras, with no more
>>>> expected until April.  Also, no DMR modules in stock, or on the
>>>> horizon.
>>> Hi Elliot!
>>>
>>> As I mentioned to Mehrdad, the DMR is a fine picture making machine,
>>> even with it's existing firmware.  Just yesterday, while
>>> photographing the Polarthon (3km speed skate, 4 km run, 5km X-country
>>> ski) a photojournalism student, at nearby Three Rivers University,
>>> looked at the back panel of my DMR and exclaimed "Wow! I wish I could
>>> get colours like that with my Nikon ! "
>>>
>>> And, as mentioned in my earlier post, the DMRs remain available.
>>> However, few dealers are keen to stock it, as sales are slow.  Still,
>>> they can order them.  (There have been stories about dealers who did
>>> not support Leica with the DMR finding themselves "low on the totem
>>> pole", for M8 deliveries.  While this is a common practice in
>>> business, I have no way of knowing if it is true.)
>>>
>>> You need not wonder about the R10.  Leica's intention is to build
>>> both hardware and firmware for the R10 so that they avoid exactly the
>>> problems they are apparently having with Imacon.  No company can
>>> afford to be "held hostage" to another, as Leica are to Imacon,
>>> for the DMR.
>>>
>>> As previously mentioned, Leica are building up their "in house"
>>> expertise, for firmware, and now write their own code for their
>>> PanaLeicas.  However, at this point, they do not have the expertise
>>> to write firmware for the M8 or DMR.  They plan on having this in
>>> place for the R10.
>>>
>>> As an aside, rumours (and only rumours) have it that this is why the
>>> Sinar purchase fell through.  Leica thought they were getting
>>> Jenoptik's software group as part of the Sinar deal.  Jenoptik
>>> thought otherwise.  Had Leica got what they wanted, I'm pretty sure
>>> Leica would have offered lenses for Sinars - especially the Sinar-M
>>> and Sinar Hy6 (http://tinyurl.com/yp6pvo).  Purchasing Jenoptik's
>>> software group (who wrote the M8's firmware) would have quickly put
>>> them firmly in the digital game.  Alas; that, it seems, was not to
>>> be.
>>>
>>> As for the M8 ... well, despite it's problems (banding - cured by a
>>> recall; IR sensitivity - cured by filters; and noise - more noise at
>>> high ISO's than the DMR, it seems) it's initial, sold-out shipment
>>> totaled more units than I understand they've sold DMRs to date!  The
>>> M8 will, it seems, save Leica.  However, to be "a player" in the
>>> camera business, they must have a dSLR which works - and works very,
>>> very well.  The R10 is intended to be that camera. Short of the
>>> financial collapse of Leica (now not too likely, with ACM's ownership
>>> and the success of the M8), I think the future of the R10 is assured.
>>>
>>> In ACM, they have an owner with the deep pockets required to make it
>>> happen. In Steven Lee, they have a CEO capable of making it happen.
>>>
>>> Will it happen?  Only time will tell.  But, I hope so.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> David Young,
>>> Logan Lake, CANADA
>>>
>>> Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/
>>> Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt
>>>
>>>
>>>
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