Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daniel, The Panasonic offering has a Leica branded lens on it so technically Leica has embraced the 4/3 system. I am still not sanguine as to the fortunes of the 4/3 system. In the U.S. Olympus has good sales of the E-500 two lens kit as the dealers did a bait and switch using Nikon co-op dollars. Nikon will not stand for that this year with some severly tightened rules on co-op use. Canon as well has awakened from it's slumber and is actually actively promoting it's products at the retail level with dollars. Most specialty retailers avoided actually selling Canon products as the margins were among the lowest and the dollars to the sales force was small to non-existant. That is not the case anymore so boxes out the door should improve markedly. Last, there is an independant manufacturer selling a real time LCD viewer for all dSLR's that works on the same principle as the Olympus but the ccd is at the eyepiece instead of internal. So now any SLR can be continuously viewed. Of course, if some really bright design/engineering team can solve the relaive noise issue of smaller chips with out softening the details in the noise reduction software then the 4/3 chip will do well. It really comes down to good enough. Kodachrome made 35mm good enough compared to medium format so who knows where this will all lead. To some degree I am torn as smaller, easier, more shots has usually been a pretty good marketing tool. But like many on the list, I can not adjust to the Olympus offering and the 1 sec I had the Panasonice it didn't work for me either. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 6/18/06, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 6/18/06, Will von Dauster <vondauster@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > It never really took off though. In the end, there will be three > > > standard mounts, just like there always has been: Nikon, Canon and > > > Pentax. > > > > Well, Olympus and that other odd little non-standard lens mount > > maker, Leica, are two companies I at least consider significant and > > who've adopted the 4/3 system. The big two have no reason to adopt > > any standard other than their own. Has someone else used the K-mount > > for digital? > > Am I understanding you correctly? Leica has adopted the 4/3 system and > lenses are interchangeable with Olympus? > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >