RE: [Leica] Re: Digital M

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

1. What companies "hold back" features from their pro-model digitals - I
believe this to be horseshit, as the pro-digital market is highly
competitive, and the manufacturers want what ever edge they can get.
This would be as silly as saying that Leica offered only separate
viewfinder/rangefinders on LTM models so they could then move people up
to the M with it's combined VF/RF.
2. IF Leica comes out with a digital M, and IF it's image quality is as
good as that being offered by other top manufacturers at the time of
it's release, it is a camera for a life-time - unless one always as to
have the "biggest on the block." All you need - is what you need; not
what is available.
3. While companies such as Kodak and Ilford can go on making money over
many decades selling film to the remaining film users, I believe that it
is highly unlikely that many if any camera manufacturers will survive
who are not able to support one or more film camera offerings with a
profitable digital line. Leica has had enough trouble surviving over the
past several years, PRIOR to the digital take over. The idea that it can
now survive on film alone is just, well, silly.
B.D .

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Luc
Bourgeois
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:32 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Digital M


The whole digital model just doesn't fit with Leica. Most digital 
companies hold back features only implementing the ones that will hurt 
the competition. Digital wants your money every six months. Leica's 
sales pitch is once in a lifetime. Leica's culture of life-long 
approach to products, when confronted with digital, might imply a 
paradigm shift that could just snap their whole foundation.

On a technical level, there's been too many technical arguments, here 
and elsewhere, concerning the optics going to the sensor, and the size 
of this sensor, to believe that a digital M will not be starting out as 
a compromise.

And finally, why is no one, tooting film's trumpet? Sure digital is 
here, but film will obviously stay. Leica, Kodak, Ilford, none of these 
are pushing film as a classic art form, which it's becoming more than 
ever. That must have some appeal, no?

Sweet dreams.

LB

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