Rumour: M8 Falls Short

[Mark Norton]

Yes, but look at the dates - this stuff (and don't they go off topic!) pre-dates the announcement of the 6 bit coding, so there's not a lot to glean from this. Usual banging on about how much it costs, how their EOS-whatever will blow it away and the rest.

 

[rxmd]

Any usenet thread will go off topic after 20 postings or so. 🙂

Still, there's quite a lot of information in there. As far as the 6-bit coding is concerned, they were told that the lens communicates data back to the body somehow, but not how exactly this is done. And it's not that Leica is likely to have gone shopping for a new sensor since then, so the age doesn't make the data wrong.

These guys were in Solms visiting the factory and were actually shown an M8 (I know some of them personally). Even though much is speculation, there are some bits that have a factual basis.

Speculation is kind of pointless now, though, since people can just wait three more weeks instead.

Philipp

 

[Mark Norton]

Two weeks today, if we believe the 15th...

 

[AndyPiper]

No, we haven't. It's not the same sensor. Leica's cooperation partner for the DMR sensor was Imacon (of Hasselblad fame). The new partner for the M8 is Jenoptik (the same company that builds the Eyelike digital back).
Philipp

Uhhh - Imacon built the DMR electronics around a KODAK sensor. Someone else (Jenoptik is one guess, but so far only a guess, not fact) is building the M8 electronics around a KODAK sensor.

From Leica's own web page on the DMR:

"The high-performance 10-megapixel sensor developed specially for Leica by Kodak Image Sensor Solutions is a technical tour de force. "