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The NEW Leica R-1D (Digital) ?


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Guest Whitewillow321

There is no need to translate that Spanish blog. I found an english news source.

 

The Online Photographer: Demise of the Epson R-D1 Digital Rangefinder

 

The British Journal of Photography.

 

Interestingly, Epson was surprised by the good demand for the camera and sold out its production run earlier than anticipated. I suspect they discontinued the product because its really not their main product line.

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I may have translated the wrong article. Anyways, i think i was aiming in the right direction..compact directional range finder by Epson..Could Leica have picked up the rights to it? It sounds like the same brand name.

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"That who me a this? , good, the question is not that, the case is that."

"It's English, Jim, but not as we know it". Machine translation has a way to go...

 

Mark--

Here's a machine translation I got from the thread (no longer available) "What makes it a Leica?" on the old forum, just so you feel better:

"Essential matter is is" is yet, that the red point thereon then white one, who Leica and where and of whom produced is finally equal.

Original was in a paragraph explaining that the poster had visited Leica and asked "What makes it a Leica?"

 

Answer: "Hauptsache ist doch, dass der rote Punkt drauf ist" dann weiß man, das ist Leica und wo und von wem produziert ist schließlich egal.

 

That is, '"The main thing is that it has the red dot." Then it's clear that it's a Leica, and where and by whom it's produced makes no difference.' (The peculiar use of quotation marks is present in the original. Vernacular English rendering is mine.)

 

But I like the machine translation better. :)

 

 

 

Price of "2 kilos" sounds costly, especially if weighed in paper notes. Oh well. As is often said, "Leica always knew to swim and to keep the clothes".

 

Jeff.

 

My Spanish is virtually non-existent, but as I read it, JRB is saying that R lenses won't work without an adapter, and the adapter will add ca 2 kilos to the setup. (At least I hope that's what it says!)

 

(That would likely bring it up to the weight of a 1D series camera, I guess ... ;) )

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I may have translated the wrong article. Anyways, i think i was aiming in the right direction..compact directional range finder by Epson..Could Leica have picked up the rights to it? It sounds like the same brand name.

 

I didn't check your link, but the Spanish post is definitely about a new R-1D reflex, not the R-D1.

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"That who me a this? , good, the question is not that, the case is that." ...

 

Mark, thewarrior is right:

Final paragraph comes out something like:

"So you want to ask who told me? That's not the question. The fact is that I know."

 

Sounds as if thewarrior and Simon have the same source this time. <g>

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At a different site I got the following somewhat clearer translation. BTW, the site offers a professional translation for $80.96.

 

http://ets.freetranslation.com/

 

Characteristics of the new one Leica R-1D. ": June 10, 2008 - 23:01:49" Leica R-1 Digital, that is the name, will be it, already it és, of the new model with the one that Leica and their owner they continue hoarding our attention

soon.

 

A sensor completely of new design, spectacular benefits in dynamic rank, with a filter anti moiré erspecialmente designed for infimas they lost and aggressive nothing in the final quality of the image, colors and insured clarity above all it known in Dslr´s, has not paid attention to expenses. A similar ergonomic design to canon but with the undeniable reactionary sound of Leica, material in its line of construction, compatibility with all the range -R, so great sensor 24X36 with possibilities of cut, stabilizing in the body of the camera, 16 MP, a system of stupendous punctual focus and genial, a sofware of the latest generation, with a reduction of impressive noise to 800 ISO, and who needs more, the ones that seek quality do not they shoot above 400 ISO, besides is not a camera destined to you determined segments, alone to the always faithful elite of Leica, nature, portrait study and street, macrophotography, landscapes, etc, and adding the quality of their objectives to that of their lenses exceptional works can be done, long-life Battery Li-Ion, Monitor of 3 inches, ergonomics of buttons and push-buttons, a body So great somewhat lower to the series 1d of canon, itself nothing of armor against the water is commented, neither the objectives they have it, but Leica always knew to have it both ways. The mirror and all the hardware implied is of a revolutionary design and destined to last for always, a screen of focus parted of crsital emery as could not be otherwise. And besides itself presetará a flash S-Ttl for her, equal this by-product of the of another acquaintance mark. That who me it to said?, good, is not that the question, the case is that it itself.

 

Greetings, and to begin to save. In line JRB Junior

 

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Re: Characteristics of the new one Leica R-1D. "Answer #1: June 11, 2008 - 22:17:37" apparently is final that the objectives -R serve not, alone with an adaptor that will develop to such end. The price itself ira to the almost 2 kilograms.

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