I wonder if Leica will go down in the history books next to the Fotron camera company after this debacle? Slobodan Dimitrov ---- David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Colin wrote: > > >If Leica could get a 18-24 Mpix FF sensor with excellent low-noise > >capability at high ISOs I actually believe they would be quite good > >at specifying an excellent UI. It would be rugged, intuitive and > >beautiful. A pleasure to use. > > I think this is the sort of thing to expect. If not FF, then very > close... say a 1.1 crop factor. The simplicity of the M8 (which is > simpler than the DMR) with lots (and lots!) of pixels. > > >Of course, I haven't checked, but Canon and Nikon et. al. probably > >have a couple of patents on dSLR cameras - which could cause some > >wee problems... > > I understand that there are no applicable patents to which the rights > cannot be bought or for which there are not reasonable work-arounds. > > >And if there aren't any auto-focus lenses you can forget most of the > >pro market anyway. > > I think you'll see AF in the R10. As you point out, they have > to. And I, for one, will be VERY surprised if they don't. > > >I don't see how they can make a real pro dSLR. > > > >But I wish they would :-) > > I think, and I hope, that they will surprise us. I do know that > they're going to try! > > Cheers! > > --- > > David Young, > Logan Lake, CANADA > > Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/ > Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt > > > > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/