The following job advertisement from Leica's website does suggest that Leica is thinking along the lines of a digital camera other than point and shoot models.

http://www.leica-camera.com/unternehmen/personal/data/02463/index.html

Harold

-- Harold (harold@haroldgess.com), February 04, 2002

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Now if I could only read German.

-- Jay (infinitydt@aol.com), February 04, 2002.

Here's a rough translation using the Altavista.com translation software.

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-- Muhammad Chishty (applemac97@aol.com), February 04, 2002.

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"Activity: - development of digital compact and system cameras Request / qualification: Bewerber/Die Bewerberin should be able to show some the following points: - study of the engineering sciences - experience with MCOcS /CCCD IMAGE SENSORS - FPGA /C PLD knowledge, programming in VHDL - Microcontroller /DSP experience, programming in C or assembler - hardware knowledge of the sensor peripheral device - knowledge line and signal theory - technical-optical basic knowledge - experience in handling graphic data and the evaluation of picture results - desirable 2-3 years relevant professional experience."

-- Muhammad Chishty (applemac97@aol.com), February 04, 2002.

Hey, these babelfishes work! Muhammad, the translation's pretty OK.

-- Oliver Schrinner (piraya@hispavista.com), February 05, 2002.