[Leica] LEICA could be clever

[mail at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)]

Nathan, I could be wrong, but I wonder if Leica were fixated on the idea
of a full frame sensor for the digital M when they kept saying that it
wasn't possible? From what I've seen of the vignetting in some of the
shots from the RD1 they cold still be right. The decision to go for a
1.3 chip has probably made the engineer's lives much easier :-)

Does anyone think that the non-professional SLR market will eventually
stabilise at 10 mega pixels? If manufacturers continue to up the pixel
count on the 1.6 crop SLRs won't we begin to see the same kind of noise
that plagues the P&S market?

Steve


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[mailto:lug-bounces+mail=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Nathan Wajsman
Sent: 26 February 2005 06:59
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] LEICA could be clever

I fully agree with you that the lenses you mention are fantastic, and I 
have bought several of them as well (although I have since sold some). 
However, most of these lenses were introduced in the 1990s. In the past 
few years, aside from the M7, Leica has introduced very few really new 
products. OK, there is the rebadged Panasonic, but otherwise we are 
talking mostly about new coverings of existing models, a retro MP and 
not much else. The DMR is a good idea but it is at least a year too 
late. And worst of all is the company's longtime insistence that a 
digital M was impossible for all kinds of technical reasons followed by 
the sudden reversal of that opinion after Epson/Cosina introduced the 
RD1.