eleskin
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Now I own an M8, but I also have a few Voigtlander lenses. My favorite is the 15mm Super Wide Heliar which I bought for my M8 and use a 21mm finder with it. I would love to see a good value digital M mount for this lens and others.
If my memory serves me correctly, Carl Zeiss said they would build a Digital M Mount camera when the technology was available to do so. Well, the M9 has proven the future is here right now, today!
Now one of the advantages to the Voigtlander and Zeiss line is they offer real value considering the savings one would have when buying their products over the Leica brand. The M9 has to be giving some at Zeiss and Voigtlander the need to drinking more coffee late at night in that they are less relevant now than ever in the market place. Some there must be asking the question that they must try to come up with something to compete, or they will just be making lenses and cameras for the Japanese that still have a film fetish, while the rest of the world moves on (I still use film too, but I had to go digital or I too would have become irrelevant in the market place).
Both Zeiss and Cosina have much to gain in a affordable ($2500) digital M Mount. They could market the camera as a much better true value (M9 is $7000, and in 3 years $2000, where a Zeiss or Voigtlander would cost $2500 or so, and after 3 years would still be worth $1,500 or so. They could also make Leica products more affordable due to competition (good ol CAPITALISM), and Leica in the end would be better off in that they would become more a serious camera company rather than one that makes these ridiculous special edition cameras that only the Queen of England can afford.
So here, everybody wins if they at least offer one digital camera.
The question is , just like the Wendys commercial "Where's the Beef?"
If my memory serves me correctly, Carl Zeiss said they would build a Digital M Mount camera when the technology was available to do so. Well, the M9 has proven the future is here right now, today!
Now one of the advantages to the Voigtlander and Zeiss line is they offer real value considering the savings one would have when buying their products over the Leica brand. The M9 has to be giving some at Zeiss and Voigtlander the need to drinking more coffee late at night in that they are less relevant now than ever in the market place. Some there must be asking the question that they must try to come up with something to compete, or they will just be making lenses and cameras for the Japanese that still have a film fetish, while the rest of the world moves on (I still use film too, but I had to go digital or I too would have become irrelevant in the market place).
Both Zeiss and Cosina have much to gain in a affordable ($2500) digital M Mount. They could market the camera as a much better true value (M9 is $7000, and in 3 years $2000, where a Zeiss or Voigtlander would cost $2500 or so, and after 3 years would still be worth $1,500 or so. They could also make Leica products more affordable due to competition (good ol CAPITALISM), and Leica in the end would be better off in that they would become more a serious camera company rather than one that makes these ridiculous special edition cameras that only the Queen of England can afford.
So here, everybody wins if they at least offer one digital camera.
The question is , just like the Wendys commercial "Where's the Beef?"
