Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/01

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Subject: [Leica] Sony Full Frame NEX
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 20:28:33 -0500
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The new Hasselblad Stellar makes any decision made by any camera maker seem 
brilliant by comparison. 

Jeffery


On Sep 1, 2013, at 7:25 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> John McMaster wrote:
> 
>>>> 
> What would be the business reason for Sony to bring out a new camera range 
> but expect people to be using non-Sony lenses? It may be a by-product, 
> like Fuji X, but not a primary reason unless Sony really want to burn 
> money.....
> <<<
> 
> I don't claim to know what Sony has in mind, but recalling Leica's 
> strategy with the S system before there was a good range of lenses 
> available, Leica made adapters to fit other-brand lenses on the S bodies.
> 
> It's a strategy to get a foot in the door.  You can't sell lenses if 
> people don't have a body to put them on, and adapters to fit existing 
> lenses to the body make it easier to buy into the system.  If I had a 
> sh!tload of N or C lenses and balked at the idea of replacing those lenses 
> with equivalent E-mount lenses which may or may not be available, I could 
> buy just the body and adapter, use my existing lenses, and replace lenses 
> over time as irresistible new E-mount toys became available.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
> 
> 
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