Digital Leica R - Rebadged

[woodyspedden]

Stuart,
I take your answer as a "No".

Yes, Leica R lenses were and most likely always will be more expensive.

My point was would you buy a rebadged DSLR that accepted the R lenses and at what premium. There is a market for R lens adapters at $175 but you get no auto aperture features. Yet people were buying Canons and shaving off the mirrors so they could use the 19 Elmarit and reducing the resale of those cameras to a far lower value than if never modified.

Fuji rebadged a Nikon and put in their own sensor. Would you buy a rebadged Canon 1DsIII that allowed full aperture metering and focus confirmation with an R lens? Or would the entire camera have to be a clean sheet Leica product?

Regards,
Al

Al

Just for clarification Canon will put a brand new mirror and mirror box assembly into the 5D for $300. So if you really used the 5D a lot with alternative lenses it was a pretty small price to pay.

Woody