Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Its because they know the marketing people and even many of the reviewers have got the whole MP megapixel thing ruling the way people perceive digital camera buying so the public or market would not know the difference. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Jefffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:23:16 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: E5 - Chilling, and filtered (hopefully)... > > I realize that you're being tongue-in-cheek, as most of this thread is. I'm > sort of surprised that Olympus even entered a world dominated by Canon and > Nikon and did so with such a small sensor. It might have made sense if the > camera and lenses were radically smaller or the optics/sensor were > expected to > get radically better. But watching the rapid demise of Contax digital shows > how difficult it is to break into this market. > > Jeffery