Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leica seems to only have two streams of thought where digital is concerned. If you look at basic digital they do a minor tweak of someone else's camera. If you talk a digital M it is too expensive because they look at doing it entirely on their own. I would think they could simply take the guts of the Digilux and place it in an M body (certainly is plenty of room since the Digilux is already smaller). Then you would have the M form factor and the M lenses. That has to be MUCH less expensive to develop than doing one from scratch. Lecia is never going to have the financial strength of the giants like Nikon and Canon...so they have to resort to guerilla product development tactics. What they do have is a dedicated base of customers that most companies would envy. How many other companies are selling a "technical" product designed before many of their customers were born? But they need to do more than an M7 to keep it moving forward. I've done quite a bit of technical product development in my career, and this can be done if there is a will to do it, and if they believe the market is there. - --- Steve Huntley <rshuntl@netscape.net> wrote: > I'm an amateur but I'm mightily impressed by my > new Digilux 1. And I can understand why pros are > going for it. At my newspaper as recently as just > over a year ago, several of the photogaphers used > M6s; then the paper closed its darkroom and went > digital and now those photographers use the Nikon D > camera. To my way of thinking, this should be a loud > message to Leica, the future is digital and there > should be a digital M camera. I'm no electronics > expert by any means and I don't know if the > technology is far enough advanced to cram the needed > electronics into the current M body (I gather 6 mp > is the standard for pros now). But the technology is > growing by leaps and bounds, and a digital M > shouldn't be that far away. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html