Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes and everyone is deliriously happy for exactly two months until it is so hopelessly out of date it is a lump on the dealers' shelves. Assuming of course that it is not completely out of date before it hits those same shelves. Many digital projects get scrapped without ever seeing fruition (or return on investment) due to the rapidly changing technology. Leica is a very small company, they would be insane if they tried to compete in the digital world without a major player on side. John Collier PS: The local adverts for the Panasonic make a great deal of hay over the Summicron lens. It is just the sort of (imaginary but effective) market advantage they were looking for. On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 02:55 PM, Darrell Jennings wrote: > Leica seems to only have two streams of thought where > digital is concerned. If you look at basic digital > they do a minor tweak of someone else's camera. If > you talk a digital M it is too expensive because they > look at doing it entirely on their own. I would think > they could simply take the guts of the Digilux and > place it in an M body (certainly is plenty of room > since the Digilux is already smaller). Then you would > have the M form factor and the M lenses. That has to > be MUCH less expensive to develop than doing one from > scratch. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html