Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/10

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica] M8 lens dilemma
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Sun Sep 10 22:51:52 2006
References: <9b678e0609101802h5dc0459en68b262ef238929a1@mail.gmail.com> <C12A3503.15269%bd@bdcolenphoto.com> <9b678e0609101910t65e00aefte8235f7a1e1d54f9@mail.gmail.com> <4504C77F.3070904@adrenaline.com> <9b678e0609101950j470e330o9d53291205651848@mail.gmail.com>

I guess it's interesting times to be wading around in
photo gear trying to figure out what to use. If the
larger 135 format sensor doesn't materialize soon as a
de facto standard, I hope that the MBA's will be
eventually over ruled by the engineers - backed up by
customer wrath :-)

Don Dory wrote:

> Scott,
> Mostly lots of R&D as well as the legacy of the speed wars of the fifties
> and the sixties.  It should be easier to design a fast really wide 
> lens for
> a small sensor but I suspect the MBA types ran a spreadsheet to 
> demonstrate
> that they would have to sell X thousand lenses and the marketing types
> couldn't commit to those numbers.
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
>

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