wda Posted November 30, 2009 Share #1 Posted November 30, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am writing a short article for the UK Leica Fellowship Newsletter and found myself guessing at the answer to this question. I am unsure whether it was the DMR or Digilux 2. Can anyone recall the first Leica digital camera to offer raw capture? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Overgaard Posted November 30, 2009 Share #2 Posted November 30, 2009 Digilux 2 came in February 2004 which was before DMR that came in July 2005. The previous Digilux 1 didn't have RAW but only JPG and TIFF as well as video Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share #3 Posted November 30, 2009 Digilux 2 came in February 2004 which was before DMR that came in July 2005. The previous Digilux 1 didn't have RAW but only JPG and TIFF as well as video Thank you, Thorsten. That was my belief, but it is good to have confirmation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted November 30, 2009 Share #4 Posted November 30, 2009 Wasn't it the Leica S1? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share #5 Posted December 1, 2009 Wasn't it the Leica S1? I did consider the S1 Steve, but could not find any mention of file format. It seemed to work tethered to a computer for museum and archiving purposes. I don't think you could call it a Leica consumer camera. :-)) Perhaps one of our Leica historians will know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted December 1, 2009 Share #6 Posted December 1, 2009 S1 was a scanning camera, using a Mac to scan one color channel at the time why it was only good for pack shots (product photos) of non.moving objects. It also required special tube light of some certain color (could be daylight, I don't remember). The software used was Silverfast scan software. Here's the text from my Leica History page: "In 1996, as the digital photography revolution began, Leica brought its Leica S1 digital camera to the market. The biggest of the three versions (Pro, Alpha and Highspeed) packed 75 megapixels – several times the resolution of even today's best digital cameras – as a studio camera that delivered a digital scan (30-60 seconds) directly to an Apple computer (using Silverfast software), and thus not a camera made for carrying around. The price was about $30,000 and 146 was made of them. The S1 took Leica R and M lenses, as well as Hasselblad, Nikon, Canon, Minolta, Zeiss, Olympus, Pentax, Sinar and Mamiya." http://www.overgaard.dk/leica_history.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share #7 Posted December 2, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thank you Thorsten; a fountain of knowledge available to all. I did read about a few S1 applications and they all seemed to be of static subjects which it did very well - at a price! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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