Thanks for the complete and thorough note David. Elliot ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Young" <telyt@xxxxxxxxx> To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 10:34 PM Subject: [LRflex] Re: Comparison of M8 Photos in Infra-Red. > At 22/11/2006, you wrote: >>David: Just a quick question: Given the financial progress that Leica >>has >>made, did you get any idea about the success of the DMR? Is the DMR still >>being made in quantity? One might envision the M8( once the problems are >>solved ) as being a bigger seller then the DMR. >> >>Any idea when the planned R 10 will be "available"? >> >>Elliot > > > Hi Elliot! > > To answer your questions: > > The DMR is selling steadily, if more slowly than Leica would like. > > It is no longer being made in quantity. In fact, it is not being > made, at all! This is because Imacon both designed and built the DMR > for Leica under contract. Leica figured out the number they'd likely > need and had Imacon built them all at once. Thus, "no longer being > made" does NOT equate to "being discontinued". It was simply more > economical to make them that way. (I know, it's hard to think of the > DMR as "economical", but the price would be worse, were they being > made in small batches!) > > Imacon continue to develop the firmware for the DMR and should Leica > sell out of them before the mythical R10 is produced, they'll have > Imacon build another batch. This I have, straight from the horse's > mouth - as it were. > > As for the M8, I suspect it is already a bigger seller than the > DMR! However, whether it will be much bigger will depend on how > fast, and how well, Leica solve their IR related colour shift problem. > > The mythical R10 is now in the early planning stages. What form it > will take - a mini-DMR with upgradeable sensors (my choice!) or a > fixed sensor camera like the current Canon's or Nikons, or something > else entirely - is likely not yet even known within Leica itself. As > I said, they are only at the EARLY planning stages. Which is why our > little survey was so important to them! > > The R-10 is expected be introduced at the next Photokina... end of > September, 2008, with availability some time after that. Whether > this actually happens, or not, will depend on whether the M8 is a > successful as they hope! And that will depend on how well, and how > fast, they solve their current M8 woes. > > Having met the new management, I have every reason to believe that > they will get it right and, after a short hiccup, will be very > successful with the M8. That, in turn, will assure the R10 to follow! > > 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/