[Leica] Leica M9 - insane pricing

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 10:59 PM -0400 9/9/09, Vick Ko wrote:
>Is the "secret sauce" the FF sensor with the micro-lenses?
>I think so.  That's going to be Leica's hammerlock on the "high 
>performance sensor solution for a digital full frame camera with 
>short flange-focal length lenses".  I wonder if that is how the 
>patent reads.
>
>If so, it's going to be hard for Zeiss / Cosina to come up with an 
>alternative recipe.
>
>
>....Vick
>



 From what I understand, Zeiss and Cosina aren't really that 
interested at the moment. Zeiss might change their mind at any time, 
but Cosina...?




>Jim Nichols wrote:
>>  I seem to remember it as, "Dream a little dream of me".  It was in 
>>our big band book in the 1940s.
>>
>>  Jim Nichols
>>  Tullahoma, TN USA
>>  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning Wulff" <henningw at 
>> archiphoto.com>
>>  To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>  Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 7:30 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M9 - insane pricing
>>
>>
>>>  At 6:39 PM -0400 9/9/09, Jan Decher wrote:
>>>>  Time for Zeiss / Cosina to work on a $2K full-frame Zeiss ZM.
>>>>  Jan
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Someone wrote that song already -
>>>
>>>     Dream a little dream with me..
>>>

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