Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brad Daly writes: > i think that people who want to use digital > cameras should use digital cameras and that > people who want to use film cameras should > use film cameras. The question here, though, is: What happens if the company that makes the cameras you know and love decides to go out on a limb and make a completely different camera, in the hope of making more money? And what happens if the company is so small that it can't really do this without negatively affecting the cameras _you_ prefer? Look at it this way: If Leica cannot make digital and film cameras (and it cannot), and if it throws its modest resources behind digital cameras, the classic M will suffer. Now, do you think that people who like the classic M (unparalleled reliability and sturdiness, simplicity, etc.) are _also_ people who like complex and newfangled digital cameras? Do you think that people who buy Leica Ms because of the unique niche they occupy in the market will run out and buy Leica digitals that are clones of every other digicam in existence, but at three times the price? I don't think so. Thus, Leica loses the M market, and gains nothing in return, and so do you.