[Leica] Are we no longer wanted?

[Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)]

Hi Mark,
Don't hold your breath, There is too small a market for any of the  
chip manufacturers to develop a completely new technology chip  
suitable for rangefinder style WA lenses. Fitting offset microlenses  
over a current technology chip, and moving the IR filter from over the  
chip to over the lens has drawn plenty of criticism already, and even  
this solution is on the limit with the 1.3 crop.
Unless a suitable new technology gets discovered for a completely  
different reason, such as production cost, there will never be a  
24x36mm sensor digital M.
Based on what they explained years ago we are lucky to have the M8. I  
suspect we have Epson to thank for that, my guess is that if that  
camera had not come along and shown a feasible compromise the M8 would  
never have come into existence.
Thankfully it did, and it is the best camera I have ever owned.
Frank

On 23 Jun, 2009, at 07:05, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> It just needs a full sized sensor.