Re: [Leica] digital M

["Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>]

David Kieltyka writes:

> I suspect what has some of us excited by the
> prospect of a digital Leica isn't so much the
> camera itself, at least not the first iteration
> of it, but the fact that Leica is evidently
> paying attention to what's going on in the
> photographic world and thus is far less likely
> to be left high & dry when the large scale shift
> to digital imaging takes place.

Just as when it tried to abandon the M in favor of the R, after "paying
attention" to the photographic world?  That didn't seem to work out too well.

Leica is a small company, and a company that size is probably better off working
for its niche market than trying to compete in domains that have already been
taken over by companies a hundred times larger.