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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 06:57:29 -0800
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At 09:26 AM 2/12/2004 -0500, Robert B. Gorrill wrote:
>Hey all of you Leicaphiles in the group.  Read this bit of news:
>
>__Leica Camera Group is working on digital solutions
>   for Leica M and Leica R systems
>
>The Leica Camera Group of Solms, Germany, plans to use
>the proceeds of the sale of convertible bonds to create the
>financial basis for its innovation and distribution strategy.
>The emphasis of the development work that is already in
>progress is on hybrid concepts that combine digital
>technology with proven analog products.
>"Well over one million high-grade Leica lenses for the Leica
>R- and Leica M systems await a solution for being used
>optimally in conjunction with digital technology.
>Our approach to digital cameras for existing lenses
>conforms to our philosophy of decades-long system
>compatibility and to our belief that the optics are the
>decisive elements for outstanding photographs - not the
>analog or digital path to those photographs", states chief of
>technology Ralf Coenen. In the Leica R single-lens-reflex
>line, work on the digital back for LEICA R8 and LEICA R9
>cameras - the LEICA DIGITAL-MODUL-R - is making good
>progress in cooperation with Danish firm Imacon A/S and
>the Kodak ISS sensor division. Another step in this
>direction is the development of a digital solution for the
>Leica rangefinder system, which has already been in the
>works for some time. For a long time, physical constraints
>were the obstacles to digital solutions for rangefinder
>cameras: Because of the absence of a mirror box as it
>exists in single lens reflex cameras, the rear element of a
>lens is often located very near the image plane. As a result,
>light rays strike that plane at an oblique angle, and this
>causes quality problems with today's sensor technology.
>"Based on a preliminary development project, we are now
>certain that a new generation of sensors with improved
>micro-lenses will lead to an image quality of the level that is
>expected of Leica", informs Mr. Coenen.
>
>
>
>
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