Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Makes sense to me. What doesn't make sense is why more companies aren't then manufacturing more sensors. Business abhors a vacuum, as it were. Certainly in other areas of semiconductor design and fabrication (and associated supporting chipsets, firmware and the like) there is no shortage of companies - and plenty of venture capital to start new ones. What is the $$ volume of the camera industry (consumer, commercial, industrial)? If it's relatively small, that might explain the differences with the rest of the (huge) chip industry. Scott Don Dory wrote: >Scott, >Sony is trying this sort of with the R1. It is the first of the all in >one's to use an APS-C sensor. Possibly a little bigger than what you asked >for but it is a start. > >As an aside, one of my friends who shoots "fine art" still uses a Contax T2 >for his slice of life images. He holds it in the palm of his hand and trips >it with his thumb. > >One of the issues is that APS-C sensor production is relatively limited so >no one has risked the "image" camera. At some point when the sensor wars >settle down and we have generic sensors that a manufacturer could specify >for use in a luxury camera. How easy life was and the choices available >when 35mm film was still a medium of choice. > >Don >don.dory@gmail.com > > >On 1/15/06, Scott McLoughlin <scott@adrenaline.com> wrote: > > >>When will camera manufacturers finally begin to address this quality/size >>ratio issue with digital cameras? In addition to Leica's, in fairly >>recent years, >>film technology gave us oodles of nice, very, very high quality film P&S >>cameras from many manufacturers- you know, Contax T3's, Leica CM's >>and the like (pic your favorite). >> >>Yet we still don't have pocketable digicams (AF or RF ) with big APS or >>larger sensors and world class, reasonably fast fixed focal length optics. >>Heck, my first "real camera" Canonet I received as a 12 year old had a >>f1.7 lens or so, IIRC. >> >>Yeah, a very high quality small digital camera will not be a "Best Buy" >>kind >>of mass market camera, but then neither were the very high quality small >>film cameras. But if there was a market for the quality small film >>cameras, >>why not with digital? >> >>Scott >> >>Jonathan Borden wrote: >> >> >> >>>What keeps me with the M6 (at least for the next year) is a couple of >>>factors: >>> >>>1) the quality/size ratio -- you can compare an M6/film image against >>>a DSLR but compact digital cameras don't really approach the image >>>quality of an M6 and film. >>> >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >