Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Your average consumer will not care about old lenses on new cameras. Or will they care if Canon's EOS Digital Rebel takes Leica-R lenses. Nikon seemed to attract allot of users with the D70. The average consumer/new user could care less about RAW/NEF files. Canon's huge, Nikon's small. Can we go back to Leica vs. Zeiss? Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick (Washington, DC)" Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon D2X review > I fully understand that current/longtime Nikon users "love" it's backward compatability, however, > I'm more concerned with forward compatability and archieving of NEF/RAW formats. > > Nikon has a huge advantage in customer's/user's eyes because of the ability to use any F-mount > lenses. Hardly great for Nikon as it results in less sales of new lenses (revenue). Perhaps that > is one of the reason they only offer true backward compatability on the very top gear. > > Canon on the other hand has a mount advantage in that one can use Nikkor, Contax/Zeiss, Leica etc. > glass via adapter on their EOS mount. > > I've said it before, Nikon is a great camera company, Canon is a great digital imaging/electronics > company. > > The reall challenges for a camera company it to capture/attract the new users, that is where the > growth is. > > p.