Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And so they decided not to compete with the Japanese DSLRs, instead to compete with the Japanese MF-DSLRs.... A smaller market with entrenched users, Leica at much higher prices than the competition, and with the 35mm DSLR's adding capability, more MP and significantly lower prices than the MF-DSLR. I do not see a big difference,,,, but then I do not work at Leica. I always believed the S product family was a competitive/commercial mistake.... Frank Filippone Red735i at verizon.net While Leica Camera wanted to provide a vehicle for the existing R lenses their analysis was that those people on their own were just not a sufficient market to make the new camera a commercial success. They elected of course to proceed with their 'middle format' S system instead. The R10 at a much higher price would have had to compete directly with the Japanese designs which dominate the market. At the same time the M9 was in development in house and concurrent with the S system design and their resources were stretched. As it turned out the M9 was more successful than was anticipated and while the S2 camera got to market the (CS) lenses for it were delayed. Cheers Geoff