Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stop the madness. Stop overthinking :-) Leica's rivals are not Canon, Nikon etc. They lost it in the 60s. Their "rival" is to convince photographers that there is a place for rangefinder photography, and in that niche market, other digital rangefinder makers, which currently consist of one company that in 2 years, have sold less than 10,000 cameras (R-D1). It is a small market folks. At 12:55 PM 7/13/2006, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >Usability with all M series cameras implies that new Leica lenses will >cover the entire 35 mm frame. Since we know that the new Digital M will >have a reduced size frame does this mean that a full frame digital Leica >is in the works? Conversely, if no full frame camera is planned, Leica >digital lenses will be more costly and bigger than their rivals from >camera companies with more frame size modest aspirations. Or is Leica >simply saying that they do not intend to introduce any new lenses beyond >those designed for film cameras at the present time and that the six bit >coding is the only modification that will be made for the digital line. >And what of Leicas membership in the 4/3 consortium? Is a 4/3 camera in >the works? > >As usual, Leica press releases raise more questions than they answer. // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)