ok here is a link to rob galbraith's site http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-8736-8825 looks like DMR is done.i still want the 1.3 On 2/4/07, drpuritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <drpuritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As always, thanks for the detailed and informative reply David. > > Elliot > > > > From: David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: 2007/02/04 Sun PM 12:41:06 EST > > To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [LRflex] Re: IMPORTANT: Re: DMR Support, all together now. > > please read > > > > Elliot wrote: > > >I'd be interested to hear from all of the very accomplished and > > >pleased DMR users. > > >Now I wonder about the R10. > > > > > >As an aside, I am visiting family in Boston and I stopped in at > > >Newtonville Camera, one of my favorite > > >"old time" photo stores. Interesting to know that they are sold out > > >of M8 cameras, with no more > > >expected until April. Also, no DMR modules in stock, or on the horizon. > > Hi Elliot! > > > > As I mentioned to Mehrdad, the DMR is a fine picture making machine, > > even with it's existing firmware. Just yesterday, while > > photographing the Polarthon (3km speed skate, 4 km run, 5km X-country > > ski) a photojournalism student, at nearby Three Rivers University, > > looked at the back panel of my DMR and exclaimed "Wow! I wish I could > > get colours like that with my Nikon ! " > > > > And, as mentioned in my earlier post, the DMRs remain available. > > However, few dealers are keen to stock it, as sales are slow. Still, > > they can order them. (There have been stories about dealers who did > > not support Leica with the DMR finding themselves "low on the totem > > pole", for M8 deliveries. While this is a common practice in > > business, I have no way of knowing if it is true.) > > > > You need not wonder about the R10. Leica's intention is to build > > both hardware and firmware for the R10 so that they avoid exactly the > > problems they are apparently having with Imacon. No company can > > afford to be "held hostage" to another, as Leica are to Imacon, for the DMR. > > > > As previously mentioned, Leica are building up their "in house" > > expertise, for firmware, and now write their own code for their > > PanaLeicas. However, at this point, they do not have the expertise > > to write firmware for the M8 or DMR. They plan on having this in > > place for the R10. > > > > As an aside, rumours (and only rumours) have it that this is why the > > Sinar purchase fell through. Leica thought they were getting > > Jenoptik's software group as part of the Sinar deal. Jenoptik > > thought otherwise. Had Leica got what they wanted, I'm pretty sure > > Leica would have offered lenses for Sinars - especially the Sinar-M > > and Sinar Hy6 (http://tinyurl.com/yp6pvo). Purchasing Jenoptik's > > software group (who wrote the M8's firmware) would have quickly put > > them firmly in the digital game. Alas; that, it seems, was not to be. > > > > As for the M8 ... well, despite it's problems (banding - cured by a > > recall; IR sensitivity - cured by filters; and noise - more noise at > > high ISO's than the DMR, it seems) it's initial, sold-out shipment > > totaled more units than I understand they've sold DMRs to date! The > > M8 will, it seems, save Leica. However, to be "a player" in the > > camera business, they must have a dSLR which works - and works very, > > very well. The R10 is intended to be that camera. Short of the > > financial collapse of Leica (now not too likely, with ACM's ownership > > and the success of the M8), I think the future of the R10 is assured. > > > > In ACM, they have an owner with the deep pockets required to make it > > happen. In Steven Lee, they have a CEO capable of making it happen. > > > > Will it happen? Only time will tell. But, I hope so. > > > > 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/ > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/