[Leica] Sony cleans up; takes no prisoners.

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Gary, obviously Leica Camera disagrees with you as does Stefan Daniel their
M guy ;-)
I think that the interview done by Luminous Landscape is very instructive
and interesting.
http://vimeo.com/6344220

One of the things that Stefan Daniel says (when asked about a collaboration
with Panasonic to produce an M mount 'digital CL' )
"No, it is not an option... Because the M is our heart"
**
You can tell that they have it wrong by the complete lack of interest and
success for the M9 and now many lenses backordered for months  ;-) ;-) ;-)
**
If anyone can come up with a way to produce a $2,000 smaller M camera with a
24x36 sensor I'm sure that they would like to hear from you!

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 27 May 2010 08:08, Gary Todoroff <datamaster at northcoastphotos.com> 
wrote:

>
>  tiny NEX cameras with 1.5 crop like the Leica X1 instead of the
>> dumb 2x crop cameras which capture the hearts and minds of the bulk of
>>  the
>> LUG.
>>
>
> Hmmm ...  2x doesn't sound so dumb when the Leica format neg compared to a
> 4x5 is 15x -- You're starting to talk like a 1955 photo editor Mark! "Get
> rid of that little toy Leica and use a real man's Graphlex!"
>
> Now you want something REALLY dumb - Leica pouring millions of R&D into the
> S2 when they could have been inventing to sell us a $2000 full-format
> digital CL which would mount all that precious M glass sitting on most of
> our shelves.
> Gary
>