Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This thread is really becoming quite amusing, because it is degenerating into such a classic "mine is bigger than yours." The question for Nikon, Leica, or any other manufacturer, is what makes sense for their customer base, not "how to we market the 'biggest one.'" Nikon's customer pro base is photo journalists, who neither need, nor, in most cases want a full-frame digital SLR. What is important is the quality of the image produced within other realistic constraints - battery life, capture speed, ease of feature use, durability of equipment, ability to use lenses across different bodies. Sure, Nikon may some day go to full-frame. But for now, from what I've been told, Gary, and from what you have been told, Chris, they aren't planning to do so. That does NOT mean that Nikon has given up the ghost, left the field to Canon; it simply means they have adopted a different strategy for waging the digital wars. Is it the right strategy? I have no idea - nor for that matter do I care in any real sense. The real question here, in terms of this thread anyway, is why some people have the notion that a sensor has to be a certain size to produce quality images - look at the astounding improvement in image quality over the past several years, all coming from sensors that are less than 35 mm size. Anyway, am I not right, Gary, in recalling you write that you neither own or use Nikon equipment? If I am, I have to ask why you give a rat's behind about what Nikon does or doesn't do? ;-) B. D. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html