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Subject: [OM] Re: Upgradable Camera
From: David Carter <Spotz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:53:41 +1300
Hopefully sometime soon, we'll be able to "create" our own personalized 
camera by choosing the optional "extras" or features we want. In the 
same way that some new cars can be personalized at the factory. Without 
having to fatten Leica wallets.

david


Winsor Crosby wrote:
> Ah, well. I don't think Leica ever competed on cost and comparing the  
> cost to a less expensive camera does not make sense when you consider  
> that the camera is more expensive than almost any camera already.  
> Considering that a new one costs $5500, functional upgrades, bringing  
> everything else up to spec and a new camera warranty it does not seem  
> too bad percentage wise. The major cost seems to be the complete  
> disassembly of the camera.
>
> The idea might inspire someone to design a truly modular camera that  
> would allow an owner to self-install them. People knew that Nikon was  
> playing with that idea before the F6 film camera was announced. The  
> idea then was to switch out the film module with a digital sensor  
> module. It was thought that the D2X and the F6 would be the same  
> camera, but with different modules.  That is just a step away from  
> designing upgrades through modules.
>
> With this initial step with the M3 maybe Leica will take the next step  
> with the R10.
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
>
>
>
>
> On / February 4, 2008 CE, at 11:24 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>
>   
>> The upgrade is 1600 Euro for people in that part of the world  
>> according to
>> several of the europeans on rangefinderforum.com who have read Leica's
>> Germna website. No word on USA cost. 1600 Euro is an astonishing  
>> amount for
>> that and more than an excellent d-SLR costs, just for a new shutter  
>> and lcd
>> glass.
>>
>>     
>
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