Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Scott, Sony is trying this sort of with the R1. It is the first of the all in one's to use an APS-C sensor. Possibly a little bigger than what you asked for but it is a start. As an aside, one of my friends who shoots "fine art" still uses a Contax T2 for his slice of life images. He holds it in the palm of his hand and trips it with his thumb. One of the issues is that APS-C sensor production is relatively limited so no one has risked the "image" camera. At some point when the sensor wars settle down and we have generic sensors that a manufacturer could specify for use in a luxury camera. How easy life was and the choices available when 35mm film was still a medium of choice. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 1/15/06, Scott McLoughlin <scott@adrenaline.com> wrote: > > When will camera manufacturers finally begin to address this quality/size > ratio issue with digital cameras? In addition to Leica's, in fairly > recent years, > film technology gave us oodles of nice, very, very high quality film P&S > cameras from many manufacturers- you know, Contax T3's, Leica CM's > and the like (pic your favorite). > > Yet we still don't have pocketable digicams (AF or RF ) with big APS or > larger sensors and world class, reasonably fast fixed focal length optics. > Heck, my first "real camera" Canonet I received as a 12 year old had a > f1.7 lens or so, IIRC. > > Yeah, a very high quality small digital camera will not be a "Best Buy" > kind > of mass market camera, but then neither were the very high quality small > film cameras. But if there was a market for the quality small film > cameras, > why not with digital? > > Scott > > Jonathan Borden wrote: > > > > > What keeps me with the M6 (at least for the next year) is a couple of > > factors: > > > > 1) the quality/size ratio -- you can compare an M6/film image against > > a DSLR but compact digital cameras don't really approach the image > > quality of an M6 and film. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >