Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/15

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Subject: [Leica] Digital "crop factor"
From: richard at ogdenonline.co.uk (Richard Ogden)
Date: Fri Oct 15 15:43:55 2004
References: <000c01c4b2e2$07ef41d0$6401a8c0@ccapr.com>

B. D. Colen wrote:
> most of the
> market for the digital M is going to be the amateur/hobbiest market, and
> how many people in that category are going to pay $5000  to $7000K for a
> 1.33 crop digital M and then turn around and pay $10K later on for a
> full-frame model? Damn few. And if people don't buy the 1.33 crop model
> - assuming there is one, thinking they're going to wait for the full
> frame model, Leica will go  belly up while people wait.

What a pity, then, that Leica don't make the world's best rangefinder 
camera in a technology that beats anything digital hands for $2500.

What?? They do?? It's called the M6 / M7 / MP?? Oh, that's alright then!

Richard

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