I bought an R8 waiting for the digital back to materialize. It was going to arrive late, and I took this as a very bad sign selling my setup. If the engineering for a digital back is a larger effort than expected, then my expectations for the basics (image quality) may be more than compromised.
Leica has half the battle -- lenses -- but needs to find an ergonomic and technological approach which matches the M's... Not easy!
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I bought an R8 waiting for the digital back to materialize. It was going to arrive late, and I took this as a very bad sign selling my setup. If the engineering for a digital back is a larger effort than expected, then my expectations for the basics (image quality) may be more than compromised.
Leica has half the battle -- lenses -- but needs to find an ergonomic and technological approach which matches the M's... Not easy!