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last one: does it mean it doesn't work with Mac? (I don't speak japanese, maybe someone

can look at the website and say:<div></div>

I am sorry if this have been posted before, but according to the previous exchange it

doesn't seem to me:

http://www.i-love-epson.co.jp/products/rd1/rd19.htm

and just to address the framelines issue:<div></div>

http://www.imx.nl/photosite/leica/leicahome.html

You should consider also the M6ttl. They currently go for great prices.

canon 28-300 L IS Do Re, (unless you can fund a sigma 50-5000 OS Ex wife). you can use

them also as variable viewfinders on the M6.

I upgraded on one of my m6ttl and on my m7. I am very happy with the change, it works

very well. I guess you are going to get close to the price of the upgrade in resale value, but

I cannot guess how it would be in two years (digital etc). I think it mostly depends on how

much you actually get flare in the viewfinder. I have the impression that different cameras,

even same model, are very different in that respect. Note that there is a slight

disadvantage to the upgrade. When I work in really low light and low contrast situations,

sometimes I just cannot find the focus patch. in a flaring viewfinder you can always see it

by the white area. In a MP viewfinder you might just not see it at all.

What's your point, Jamie? It is not a point and shoot sensor size too. It is not a "all in

focus" camera. Even when I use my 24f/1.4 on the 10D (about the same chip size of the

RD1) there is much room for different in out of focus characteristics. So think about the 75

lux on the new camera. I guess the "out of focus" issue on digital has more to do with the

smooth and not pleasing color transition in the out of focus areas. Also the very low

dynamic range of current digital leaves out much of the shades/bright light differences in

the out of focus areas, and prevents the ability to see a meaninful "dreamy" image there.

(blown highlights look even worse when they are out of focus)

I agree that the dust might be a big issue. CCD, rather than CMOS and NO mirror seems to

be a tricky combination, in that respect.

does it say anywhere if it is a new sensor? hope it is not the d100 sensor. is it a new

epson sensor? if the body is cosina and the sensor is a third party then what is epson?

200 iso minimum is also not that great. with all the lux lenses available 200 iso minimum

limits much of what can be done with shallow depth of field with Leical lenses on a bright

day.

"I'm waiting for the upgraded version, the R2D2."

Josef, that would be the Leica version, obviously (experts in up to date technology from

the early 60ies) ; >)

sorry, I will press "refresh" next time. didn't see that there are 4 people ahead of me that

already said quite the same thing...

"Let us concentrate on Leica, since this is a Leica Forum. Bessa Voigtlander and other

brands should be discussed elsewhere.

The 64 MB SD card deliverede by Leica is not very useful, and most people will probably

acquire a 256 MB card. Leica offers one...."

Michael, are you sure that discussing an SD card that "Leica offers" (i.e. that leica allowed

someone to print "leica" on), is more relevant to this forum than discussing a digital

camera that would accept M mount lenses? vc has a chance of saving Leica by keeping

people like me, and I am sure that many others in this forum, that have many Leica lenses,

from selling the gear and buying 1Ds/markII, instead of waiting for Leica to wake up.

apparently, Leica finds vc's new camera more relevant to LEICA than you do, and they

followed the announcement by stating their own plans to make a Leica DM. I am not that

sure that they would have stated that, at this stage, without vc's announcement.