Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The whole digital model just doesn't fit with Leica. Most digital companies hold back features only implementing the ones that will hurt the competition. Digital wants your money every six months. Leica's sales pitch is once in a lifetime. Leica's culture of life-long approach to products, when confronted with digital, might imply a paradigm shift that could just snap their whole foundation. On a technical level, there's been too many technical arguments, here and elsewhere, concerning the optics going to the sensor, and the size of this sensor, to believe that a digital M will not be starting out as a compromise. And finally, why is no one, tooting film's trumpet? Sure digital is here, but film will obviously stay. Leica, Kodak, Ilford, none of these are pushing film as a classic art form, which it's becoming more than ever. That must have some appeal, no? Sweet dreams. LB - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html