[LRflex] Re: Aram and David !
- From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:16:36 -0700
Dr Farzin asked:
If they don't make lenses for R series. why do we think they make
new camera body. ? Dr .Farzin
Until very recently, Leica continued to promise they would soon make
the R10d... presumably with new, AF lenses. And we all lived in hope.
Then they discontinued all "R" series glass and announced that the
R10 would never be made.
The S2 is, I'm sure, a magnificent piece of kit. (I hope to fondle
one, in Seattle, in October.) But, for most of us, it is far to
expensive, at $22,000 for the body and lenses that are similarly priced.
For us, the ideal solution would have been to gut the R8/9 and make
it into a digital only body. They could have used ROM-like contacts,
opposite the existing ROM contacts, to communicate with new AF
lenses, while "R" (3 cam and 3rd cam only) lenses would continue to
work in manual focus mode.
Now, like Aram, I have no expectations that this will ever happen.
Pity.
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David Young
Logan Lake, BC
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