Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, not quite the full story. Leica Camera did market a version of a Panasonic four thirds camera for a period. Presumably it was not sufficiently successful and it was discontinued. Four thirds itself is displaced by the micro four thirds standard now in any case. Of course they still offer versions of some Panasonic compacts in their range. I've shot a few hundred frames each with Micro Four Thirds cameras from Olympus and Panasonic and they do a very good job. They offer some unique advantages but are not intended to compete directly with full frame for some applications. I don't believe that Leica is intending, nor needs to compete with that Sony though. It's a bit of a trap to look at cameras just from an M perspective, which seems to come up in the on-line Leica groups a bit. Everyone wants a smaller, cheaper (add a list of desired features) vehicle for their lenses while retaining the M cachet maybe! Leica remains a small niche in the scheme of things, however they have done better and better from the M9 especially, forward. Guess which company is doing better in their market niche, Leica Camera or Sony? On impressions Fujifilm and Olympus are closer competitors with Sony? Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 7 March 2014 16:16, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > "bringing Leica back to the 4/3." kinda sounds like Leica used to make a > 4/3's camera, and now its coming back home.. Not the case. It's made a > couple of 4/3's lenes for other companies cameras. > Leica now is making compact 1.5 crop cameras. If there is a reason why it > should go 4/3's as if its a fad it has a prerogative to join in on I'd like > to know what it is. As is its a company whose mission has always been > making > a quality product and senselessly cutting its compact format in half does > not add up. > Eyes are 0n Leica now to come out with its answer to the Sony RX1 full > frame > compact. Not stupidly dumb itself down. > > >