Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >