There has been some illustrations online indicating that Ricoh may produce a cartridge for Leica M lenses. Yesterday DC Watch posted a report from the CP+ Camera and Imaging Show 2010 (Japan) and one of the pictures shows a Ricoh GXR camera with a Leica M lens:
image credit: DC Watch
The Ricoh GXR system has interchangeable cartridges that contain the sensor and lens (mount) in one piece (more info available here and here).
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If the cartridge has a full frame sensor, it could be a game changer.
if it has an APS-C sensor , most people would still go nuts ^^^
yeah, APS-C would work too with a FF in the mix down the line without having to replace the body, just the cartridge.
looks like we may have a winner on our hands
sorry guys but this looks like (a very bad) photoshop work – don’t you agree?
Lovely,
Hmm, no while it have a strange box surface, it IS a module camera, so it could be the real thing.. though it would not be hard to wrap a piece of cardboard with black plastic and a M lens, so why photoshop this.
The catch would be, the Ricoh is not a rangefinder camera and from playing with my G1 I can say for sure it is easier to focus a M lens on a M camera than anything else so far.
Bo
hi everyone, this is purly a case study done by magazine “Japan Camera” (日本カメラ) in the February issue. More like a wishlist to me, since they have the GXR stuck to a bellow and even as the digital back of a Hassy SWC!
it’s shown at Yokohama CP+ camera show
http://www.digitalcamera.jp/html/HotNews/image/2010-03/11/CP+11-112-L.jpg
in addition, RICOH says no plan to production these GXR units.
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20100311_353988.html
My understanding is that those prototypes were displayed on Ricoh’s booth at the show. This puts some validity to this rumor – otherwise why would they display it on their official booth? The Google translation is not clear – maybe I am missing something.