On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:06:04PM -0400, Adam Maas scripsit: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Graydon<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 05:16:42PM -0400, Adam Maas scripsit: > >> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 5:07 PM, P. J. Alling<[email protected]> > >> wrote: > > [snip - Leica S format] > >> > Yea, but it won't say Leica on it... > >> > >> That's a feature, not a bug. > > > > Well, wait a year or so and I'm sure the Panasonic version will be > > available. > > No Panny version until Leica goes broke and Panny buys them. Leica has > unwisely IMHO chosen to not avail itself of Panasonic's expertise with > the M, R or S series digital systems which were developed with the aid > of Kodak(All), Imacon(DMR) and PhaseOne(S2).
I'm sure Leica is trying hard to avoid getting eaten. I don't think they're going to succeed particularly well. Is it known for sure there's no Panasonic involvement in the image processing engines outside of the D and P&S systems? The S2 specs are rather better than I recall PhaseOne managing to do. Could be faulty memory or PhaseOne being more price sensitive. > The D system stuff (read 4/3rds) and P&S's are the only > Panasonic/Leica partnerships although it's strongly rumoured that we > will see Leica G lenses (For the Micro 4/3rds system) come september. I'm pretty sure Leica isn't going to be turning down effectively free money, so I'd figure those are good rumours. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
