Re: New Fujifilm X-Pro1 interchangeable lens at CES
kosmoskatten wrote:
If Leica can produce a \"crude\" electronic full frame digital camera with an intricate optomechanical range finder and sell it like hot cakes despite an astronomical price tag, why can\'t the other makers release a similar product at half or two thirds of the price? Would not be so hard if you reduce the labor cost and the meticulous range finder assembly and make a full frame EVF camera. Something the NEX7 should have been, if you ask me.
That would be nice, but a crop camera is more profitable.
If they were gonna do a FF EVF mirrorless, what\'s in it for them?
Huge R&D costs, having to deal with every weirdo chimping the corners of the sensor with his XYZ legacy glass, having to develop a new range of lenses if they\'re gonna make any money, and all they\'d achieve is to boost Leica, ZM and CV sales because lets face it, they are the specialists when it comes to M lenses. Much easier and more profitable to do a crop, and get people to buy some proprietary lenses because their M glass is just \"not the same\" on a crop sensor.
If on the other hand you ARE zeiss and cv who already make such lenses, then yes it would make sense. But Zeiss/CV have capitulated on the camera front for their own reasons. Leica did it, but Leica is an oddball company.
