Why not a digital back for G1/G2

[DavRaz]

I am new to this forum, and I am delighted in finding it.
Recently I sent an e-mail to Carl Zeiss regarding a digital update to the G2 (I own a G2 with four prime lenses, in my estimation among the best ever made and Popular Photography's review of these lenses agrees.).
Although their response did not explicitly state that a new digital camera was in the works, they did mention that nothing was concrete as of YET!
Since that time I thought that a digital back (aka the data back) might be an option (Leica has one for its "R" cameras.
If enough interest can be shown, who knows, maybe Carl Zeiss will develope one, hopefully with a full frame sensor.
Take a few minutes, search Carl Zeiss on the Webb, and send them an email requesting a digital back for the G1/G2. If they get enough owners interested, something good may happen.
By the way I do shoot digital with a Nikon D100 and the future is now.

 

[jlw]

If Carl Zeiss engineers a digital option, I'd think they'd be more interested in offering it for their own Zeiss Ikon camera rather than for the G2, which was made by Kyocera, which has now gotten out of the business.

And if they're going to get into digital, I'd rather see them make a pure digital RF camera than try to slap a "digital back" on an existing film camera (which is a lot more complicated than it sounds, as Leica has been finding out the hard way, and inevitably would result in a bulky, clunky package compared to an all-digital RF such as the Epson R-D 1.)

 

[Socke]

I don't see a digital future for the G2 :-(

The M-Mount seems to be the way to go for digital rangefinders.

There is a bigger userbase with M-Mount and adaptable LTM lenses than with Contax G mount lenses, so the market for a digital body to use with these lenses is much bigger.

 

[Lear]

Contax is no more, the G system has the best lenses I ever used. But I guess no Digital G3 or anything like that.

Diego K.