Leica S2 Delayed Until December

Best Digital Cameras - Leica S2 Launch Delayed Until December 2009

Leica has told the Amateur Photographer that the launch of the Leica S2 DSLR digital camera has been delayed until December 2009, not as some press reports claim January 2010. So that note to Santa may be worth the effort after all. The S2 will only set you back around $23,000 for the body - if you want a lens to go with it, it will cost you another $5K or $6K. For details of the S2 see Leica S2

For your money you will get probably the best DSLR on the market with a 37.5 million pixel sensor.

(Leica S2 DSLR for Christmas if you're lucky!)
On Monday, Leica said that the much-awaited launch of the Leica S2 (They had originally announced the launch for October 2009) was due to the fact that they need more time to meet advance orders.

A Leica spokesman previously said: "The Leica S-System has attracted a great deal of attention among photographers since it was announced at Photokina 2008.

Orders have been much higher than expected, and .... we have decided to adapt the S-System production lines to enable a higher daily output.

.... this cannot be done during running production - and because the process calls for further testing and optimisation at some stages - first deliveries will commence from calendar week 50 (week commencing 7 December 2009)."

Leica UK says it chose not to issue a statement to the press regarding the postponement, as it preferred to contact its "professional customers" only. Why on earth did they prefer to do that ? Very odd if you ask me (which you didn't).

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