This sure has been a chicken little scenario! Since it's relevant again, for those of you who just had a bout of hand-wringing, I still have the R8 for that DMR. Slobodan Dimitrov On Jan 26, 2007, at 2:37 PM, David Young wrote: > All: > > As you all know, it has been reported that Stephen Gandy (of > CameraQuest fame) reported on one of the other lists that Leica is > soon to withdraw support for the DMR. > > I have, within the last few minutes, spoken with Christian > Erhardt, Marketing Manager with Leica USA. He tells me: > > [1] That Leica has no plans to withdraw support from the DMR. > > [2] The DMR remains available and will continue to do so. > > [3] Parts and service will continue to be available for the DMR, as > with all Leica products. > > [4] v1.3 of the DMR's firmware is still "in the works". There have > been delays, and Leica USA do not have a firm date, at this time, for > it's introduction. However, Imacon is "working very hard" to make > the release as bug-free as possible and it is "still in the works". > > I have not talked to Stephen since Wetzlar, but I am assuming that he > noticed the delays in v1.3 and interpreted that as Leica giving up. > Such posts are unfortunate, as they cause panic in people when it is > not warranted. > > Just thought you'd like to know. > > 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/