Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Digilux is done via a partner. All I am suggesting is putting it in a different package (and one that they already are making) which is not very hard to do. - --- John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca> wrote: > Yes and everyone is deliriously happy for exactly > two months until it is > so hopelessly out of date it is a lump on the > dealers' shelves. Assuming > of course that it is not completely out of date > before it hits those > same shelves. Many digital projects get scrapped > without ever seeing > fruition (or return on investment) due to the > rapidly changing > technology. Leica is a very small company, they > would be insane if they > tried to compete in the digital world without a > major player on side. > > John Collier > > PS: The local adverts for the Panasonic make a great > deal of hay over > the Summicron lens. It is just the sort of > (imaginary but effective) > market advantage they were looking for. > > On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 02:55 PM, Darrell > Jennings wrote: > > > 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. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ 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