Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree as having an adaptor makes it so its not like you're starting out on a whole new system which could sound redundant. If your adaptor makes it so its just a whole different kind of body (compact) for your existing set of lenses it makes the buy much easier to justify to the money guys upstairs. In most cases in these cases people often end up just using the Sony lenses for the connivance of full functionality and the fact that they're not not that bad and they are not printing 17x22 inch prints so the Leica glass advantage is less obvious. That with the sensor not matched up right to the odd ray paths of rangefinder glass and you get Sony in the front and Sony in the back. I visited the Sony store in NY its a huge deal and they are getting into having Zeiss back them up in the glass department big time. Some of these lenes are so pricey that they would seem be made in Oberkochen. As much as I love Leica premium glass it was Zeiss for Hasselblad glass which got me ready for it. The idea of having so much tied up and glass and the value of that. Help me Oberkochen. You're my only hope! On 9/1/13 8:25 PM, "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > John McMaster wrote: > >>>> > What would be the business reason for Sony to bring out a new camera range > but > expect people to be using non-Sony lenses? It may be a by-product, like > Fuji > X, but not a primary reason unless Sony really want to burn money..... > <<< > > I don't claim to know what Sony has in mind, but recalling Leica's strategy > with the S system before there was a good range of lenses available, Leica > made adapters to fit other-brand lenses on the S bodies. > > It's a strategy to get a foot in the door. You can't sell lenses if people > don't have a body to put them on, and adapters to fit existing lenses to > the > body make it easier to buy into the system. If I had a sh!tload of N or C > lenses and balked at the idea of replacing those lenses with equivalent > E-mount lenses which may or may not be available, I could buy just the body > and adapter, use my existing lenses, and replace lenses over time as > irresistible new E-mount toys became available. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/