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[Contarama]

I'm going to speculate that the big boys (Canon and Nikon) won't make such a rig because their marketing geniuses tell them it would cut to far into DSLR sales and give the competition an edge. I think this is the same reason why they aren't doing 4/3 (except maybe they don't want to cut into P&S sales also in this case). So what we end up with is the smaller more lean folks - Olympus, Panasonic, Fuji, etc. get to fill in the market niches.

I think to a great extent camera history has always sort of been this way. With regards to Leica...well lets just say they will be here to stay.

 

[uhoh7]

And to stay in the game they may just have to add those things ... but then again a lot of people would react by saying it's no longer a 'real' Leica!

haha, you are probably right.

Change is so scary. I've seen it first hand in my industry. For decades we suffered with utterly stupid ski design, and little experimentation. There were a few exotics, like the miller soft powder ski, but it went nowhere. They knew it all. Teaching people to ski powder on long straight skis was pure torture.

Then came snowboards. Panic. Hate. Condescension. I've still never been on a snowboard, hehe. But at atomic, they watched the snowboards in powder, and wondered what it would be like to have two little snowboards, one on each foot. Enter the "powder plus". It revolutionised helicopter skiing. Slowly we began to see slightly shorter more shaped skis. "It's a fad", said all the local pros, except me and few others. To say they were resistent is to understate to the extreme. They HATED shaped skis. When they got a pair it was always WAY too long. They could not stand how they looked in lift lines.

Today it's the straight skis that look ridiculous. All those guys have completely forgotten they ever dissed the shaped skis. And skiing is much more fun.

Of course we still have stupid technology, boots jacked high off the skis sold to poor old geezers already weak in the knees--with bad binding design.

You see this same thing in discussions about the sony nex. "Oh god, it's way too small!" "totally unbalanced" "No viewfinder""where are the lenses?"

My only question is: "where is the full frame sensor, Dammit?"

that rig goes where no other aps-c can: my inside jacket pocket.

let's say this guy represents the ostrich vison at canon:

shot last week, nex-5 + Elmarit-m 90, 7fps

I can tell you there were no DSLRs on that chairlift.

 

[jsrockit]

And to stay in the game they may just have to add those things ... but then again a lot of people would react by saying it's no longer a 'real' Leica!

To stay in the game all they have to do is get their high ISO up to par. Leica's game is very small and they have their fan base. Video and 7fps are not really a mechanical rangefinder's strong points.

 

[Sonnar2]

To me, it sounds very much like Zeiss Ikon sayings about cameras of the 60'ies what the CANON spokesman said.
Seems like CANON and NIKON now, very different to what they were in 1958, are too big to react on market trends...

 

[CanonRFinder]

UHOH7,

Your analogy on ski designs took me straight back to surfboard design. Now the Mals are back in vogue and we have the third generation buying them and enjoying them...only wish they would try them without leg ropes then they would realise how much swimming was involved or just don't lose your board.

Just purchased a book of surf photography in the 60 and 70s by Leroy Grannis and there is a full page pic of Dr Don James (another surf photographer) standing on the beach in 72 with a long tele lens on tripod, but unsure what make it is? Peter