[Leica] Sony cleans up; takes no prisoners.

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> 
>>  tiny NEX cameras with 1.5 crop like the Leica X1 instead of the
>> dumb 2x crop cameras which capture the hearts and minds of the bulk of  
>> the
>> LUG.
> 
> Hmmm ...  2x doesn't sound so dumb when the Leica format neg compared
> to a 4x5 is 15x -- You're starting to talk like a 1955 photo editor
> Mark! "Get rid of that little toy Leica and use a real man's Graphlex!"
> 
> Now you want something REALLY dumb - Leica pouring millions of R&D
> into the S2 when they could have been inventing to sell us a $2000
> full-format digital CL which would mount all that precious M glass
> sitting on most of our shelves.
> Gary  
> 
> 
Gary its not just a pure format deal its a format / size of camera body
equation.
The S2 is smaller than an EOS. Or D3.
But with a much better sensor making for much bigger quality.
What Barnack said at day one was:
Small negatives big pictures.

The Leica x1 and the Sony NEX's are using a 15x23 mm format size.
The 1.5 crop circle factor.
Competing against cameras often bigger in size but with a 2x crop circle
factor. 13.5 mm x 18 mm
So you get a pocket size camera but but with big camrea results.
The basic Leica concept.

Barnack very conscientiously went for double frame with lots of cameras out
there at that day one time using movie film for stills using single frame.

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