Why can't I have a digital QL 17

CodeMonkey13

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A general question What would be so hard about making a digital QL 17 type camera? Fixed lens 30-50mm f1.7-f22 manual focus? Is there just no market for one? I have not seen a point and shoot that has a lens of RF quality. Would anyone buy one? (That might be s stupid question here:D ). I saw somewhere that a QL 17 would cost about $450-500 in today's dollars. THe new canon G9 has manual focus. Just wonderingwhatt everyone thought.
 
On the same vein: why not digital modules for some of the mythical film cameras with just raw, adobe RGB white balance iso, No LCD nothing else, 35 mm size competitive resolution decent price. Like a simplified Leica Modul at 1/5 the price. One for Contax RTSIII, one for Leica M5, one for Nikon F4 etc...
 
Frankly im at a loss too. I have discussed this with my photography teacher, why the heck isnt there a fixed fast lens camera with a decent sized chip. I have played with the canon G9 a lot and gave serious consideration to it and the GRD but neither seemed to float my boat. The GRD as neat as it is just isnt a GR1v and the canon, as neat as it is, doesnt fit well in my hand and that big protruding lens (with no wide angle ability I might add) screams "I WONT FIT IN YOUR WALK AROUND BAG!" not to mention the pitifully slow lens. So what has the left me to? Wishing there was a classic format digital camera. Simple fixed lens, f1.8 or more, 50mm or so, manual focus (very simple to design it would seem compared to a computer in a camera) and a good viewfinder. How hard could it be?

Then again my photography teacher just said: "you have 10 cameras in your dry box, what the hell are you bitching about?"

but I still want that pocket point and shoot....ricoh, go buy some canon 20d sensors and jam them into your grd2!

what I secretly want though is a voigtlander point and shoot, the 35mm PII stuck to a tiny little body the size of a pana lx1 and a veiwfinder with rangefinder ala Olympus XA and the sensor from the canon 20D.
 
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