[Leica] More rumors about Leica X1 manufacturer.

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 7:54 PM -0500 11/1/09, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
>Seen on the Photography Bay site:
>
>Word on the street is that the Leica
>X1<http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/650518-USA/Leica_18420_X1_Digital_Compact_Camera.html/BI/1141/KBID/1447>
>sensor
>is manufactured by Sony - and that same sensor is set to be placed in an
>upcoming (and as-yet unannounced Nikon camera).  More specifically, the
>sensor is 23.6 x 15.8mm with 12.2 "effective" megapixels.  13 million pixels
>in total sit on the sensor. At recent press event in Singapore, Sunil Kaul,
>regional director of Asia Pacific for Leica Camera AG spilled the beans as
>to the sensor's origin and its future home inside a Nikon camera, which he
>"cannot disclose."
>
>So if the X1 manufacturer is not Leica, perhaps it is Nikon.
>
>Larry Z
>


Sony sensor. Leica built. Nikon nothing.
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