Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Remember profits. All camera manufacturers make more on soft goods than on the big ticket items. At the old shop I used to work at, we'd make more off of the sale of two cheap filters that cost the shop $6 each with a markup of 1800%, than we would off of a D700 with a pro ED zoom lens. Profits on DSLR cameras and lenses never got above 8%. This camera allows Leica to outsource production of calibrated color filters along the whole range with fine gradations of desired contrast. This technology is deprecated so it will be pretty much pure profit for Leica to contract Marumi to put colored glass in brass rings labeled "Leica" and sized according to each of their lenses. For the future M9M users they are a necessity because, with a little hyperbole, the owner of the M9M would only put a Leica filter on their $15,000 camera/lens combo. So we'll surely see a line of Leica filters for B&W probably just below the price point for the UV/IR filters. I'm sure they will be nice filters though. Phil Forrest On Mon, 28 May 2012 11:03:44 -0400 Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> wrote: > but, it's not POSSIBLE if the sensor is NOT color sensitive > > ric > > > On May 28, 2012, at 10:57 AM, James Laird wrote: > > > Jayanand, > > > > That's true but it sure would be nice to have that ability in camera > > so you could mimic say a yellow filter to get a JPEG for reference > > purposes or a quick print or web pic. Seems like an $8000 camera > > SHOULD be able to do that, but maybe its just wishful thinking on my > > part. > > > > Jim Laird > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- http://philipforrestphoto.wordpress.com/ http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/philforrest