[Leica] Leila's April 24th announcement - place your bets!

[jplaurel at gmail.com (Jim Laurel (gmail))]

I assume you're just talking about full frame compacts with fixed primes of 
moderate focal lengths (~35-50mm), Mark. Because if you're including 
interchangeable lens cameras in your prediction, I'd like to know how you 
think optical engineers are going to produce something like a pro grade 
24-70 f/2.8 and make it any smaller than the Canon 24-70 f/2.8L.

Getting the body size down isn't the problem. It's the lenses. And lenses 
make up the vast bulk of the kit you're carrying around. If you can't get 
overall system weight down in size and weight, what's the point of a compact 
body?

On Mar 7, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> In the near future other full frame compacts will not be positioned so high
> on the luxury scale.. And will probably be even more compact being similar
> at first in scale to the leica X line. . But they still will be full frame
> cameras way smaller and lighter than the current M and though not looking
> like the choice neck candy the Sony Rx is will still be of great interest 
> in
> this very Leica like idea.
> And two grand is also a lot of money.
>