[LRflex] Re: Leica R rumours?
- From: Thomas Schofield <tdschofield@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:35:26 -0700 (PDT)
Wouldn't it be cool if you could switch back and forth
by reloading the firmware?
Many would still buy two M8's to have color and B&W
bodies. One silver and one black.
Anyway, the rumor I heard is tht the B&W version got
shelved because it would be too expensive to redesign
the existing in-production camera, but is on the table
for being designed in from the beginning for the M9
coming in 4 years, possibly with a slimmer profile
along the lines of traditional M.
Tom
--- David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 01/06/2007, you wrote:
> >Going back to rumors:
> > do you have any clue about a digital M b&w only
> sensor?
> >There was something in Luminous Landscape some
> months ago and was really
> >intriguing. A Kodak camera already is around and
> the way pixels are used to
> >create the picture were promising astonish
> resolution, if I correctly
> >remember.
> >Flavio
>
> Hi Flavio:
>
> When we were in Wetzlar, last fall, Tom A. asked
> Steven Lee (at a
> public dinner) about the B&W M8, and was told it
> should be out in
> (last) April. I gather the only change is in the
> firmware, but the
> way they interpret the image should yield an
> "effective" 17mp
> image.... which is significantly more impressive
> than simply removing
> the colour from the 10 mp image.
>
> However, when that statement was made, they had not
> yet released the
> M8 and were not aware of either [a] the demand for
> the product and
> [b] the amount of work doing the recall of the first
> run of
> cameras. Both have consumed way more capacity than
> they
> thought. Thus, I am pretty sure that the B&W M8 is
> "on the back
> burner" ... a project to get around to, when they
> have time.
>
> Sorry, but I have no information which is more up to
> date.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> ---
>
> David Young,
> Logan Lake, CANADA
>
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