Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If Leica produces a wonderful full frame 6mp digital M camera, but within a year or two, most of the other camera manufacturers are making 10mp full frame cameras at a fraction of the cost of the Leica, how many Leica owners would be happy to keep using their digital Ms? I'm not sure "camera for a life-time" is meaningfull nowadays. - -dan c. > > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > Date: 2004/02/10 Tue AM 10:04:52 EST > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Digital M > > 1. What companies "hold back" features from their pro-model digitals - I > believe this to be horseshit, as the pro-digital market is highly > competitive, and the manufacturers want what ever edge they can get. > This would be as silly as saying that Leica offered only separate > viewfinder/rangefinders on LTM models so they could then move people up > to the M with it's combined VF/RF. > 2. IF Leica comes out with a digital M, and IF it's image quality is as > good as that being offered by other top manufacturers at the time of > it's release, it is a camera for a life-time - unless one always as to > have the "biggest on the block." All you need - is what you need; not > what is available. > 3. While companies such as Kodak and Ilford can go on making money over > many decades selling film to the remaining film users, I believe that it > is highly unlikely that many if any camera manufacturers will survive > who are not able to support one or more film camera offerings with a > profitable digital line. Leica has had enough trouble surviving over the > past several years, PRIOR to the digital take over. The idea that it can > now survive on film alone is just, well, silly. > B.D . > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Luc > Bourgeois > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:32 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Digital M > > > 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html