Sudden Change in Leadership at Leica – PDNPulse

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According to the U.K.-based magazine Amateur Photographer, an interview the publication conducted with Lee during PMA 2008 could have been the cause of his firing. In an editor’s note written by Damien Demolder of Amateur Photographer, Demolder claims that Lee “hinted strongly” to his magazine that Leica was planning a full-frame version of the M8 digital rangefinder, a slip-up that, if true, could have led to Lee’s eventual ouster.

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