Jabberwockt wrote:
While it may sound trivial for one of the major Japanese makers to break onto the scene with a digital rangefinder, i suspect it is actually not. At minimum there needs to be a few lenses in different focal lengths. This would be a significant investment of time and resources. And if it fails to catch on, it could be a huge bust.
and it would fail to catch on, because how on earth would you sell your lenses in a vast lens market that ranges from perfect (Leica) to cheap and excellent (CV) AND is backwards compatible to about a century back? No way.
Unless you made a new proprietary non-adaptable mount to force the RF crowd to ditch their vast selection of lenses and buy into a whole new system that only has 3-4 lenses (and would have to be damn excellent to entice), just to save 1-2k on the body.. Good luck with that.
So you\'d be stuck doing all the hard R&D work only to make a platform that helps Leica, Zeiss and CV to sell more of their own lenses, and you\'d only be selling the kit lens, if that. It just doesnt make sense from a business perspective...
there are companies with big budgets that have the luxury to commit R&D money to risky projects (eg Fuji) but they have already put their chips elsewhere (XPro)
Jabberwockt wrote:
While it may sound trivial for one of the major Japanese makers to break onto the scene with a digital rangefinder, i suspect it is actually not. At minimum there needs to be a few lenses in different focal lengths. This would be a significant investment of time and resources. And if it fails to catch on, it could be a huge bust.
and it would fail to catch on, because how on earth would you sell your lenses in a vast lens market that ranges from perfect (Leica) to cheap and excellent (CV) AND is backwards compatible to about a century back? No way.
Unless you made a new proprietary non-adaptable mount to force the RF crowd to ditch their vast selection of lenses and buy into a whole new system that only has 3-4 lenses, just to save 1-2k on the body.. Good luck with that.
So you\'d be stuck doing all the hard R&D work only to make a platform that helps Leica, Zeiss and CV to sell more of their own lenses, and you\'d only be selling the kit lens, if that. It just doesnt make sense from a business perspective...
there are companies with big budgets that have the luxury to commit R&D money to risky projects (eg Fuji) but they have already put their chips elsewhere (XPro)
Jabberwockt wrote:
While it may sound trivial for one of the major Japanese makers to break onto the scene with a digital rangefinder, i suspect it is actually not. At minimum there needs to be a few lenses in different focal lengths. This would be a significant investment of time and resources. And if it fails to catch on, it could be a huge bust.
and it would fail to catch on, because how on earth would you sell your stuff in a vast lens market that ranges from perfect (Leica) to cheap and excellent (CV) AND is backwards compatible to about a century back? No way.
Unless you made a new proprietary non-adaptable mount to force the RF crowd to ditch their vast selection of lenses and buy into a whole new system that only has 3-4 lenses, just to save 1-2k on the body.. Good luck with that.
So you\'d be stuck doing all the hard R&D work only to make a platform that helps Leica, Zeiss and CV to sell more of their own lenses, and you\'d only be selling the kit lens, if that. It just doesnt make sense from a business perspective...
there are companies with big budgets that have the luxury to commit R&D money to risky projects (eg Fuji) but they have already put their chips elsewhere (XPro)
Jabberwockt wrote:
While it may sound trivial for one of the major Japanese makers to break onto the scene with a digital rangefinder, i suspect it is actually not. At minimum there needs to be a few lenses in different focal lengths. This would be a significant investment of time and resources. And if it fails to catch on, it could be a huge bust.
and it would fail to catch on, because how on earth would you sell your stuff in a vast lens market that ranges from perfect (Leica) to cheap and excellent (CV) AND is backwards compatible to about a century back? No way.
Unless you made a new proprietary non-adaptable mount to force the RF crowd to ditch their vast selection of lenses and buy into a whole new system that only has 3-4 lenses, only to save 1-2k on the body.. Good luck with that.
So you\'d be stuck doing all the hard R&D work only to make a platform that helps Leica, Zeiss and CV to sell more of their own lenses, and you\'d only be selling the kit lens, if that. It just doesnt make sense from a business perspective...
there are companies with big budgets that have the luxury to commit R&D money to risky projects (eg Fuji) but they have already put their chips elsewhere (XPro)
Jabberwockt wrote:
While it may sound trivial for one of the major Japanese makers to break onto the scene with a digital rangefinder, i suspect it is actually not. At minimum there needs to be a few lenses in different focal lengths. This would be a significant investment of time and resources. And if it fails to catch on, it could be a huge bust.
and it would fail to catch on, because how on earth would you sell your stuff in a vast lens market that ranges from perfect (Leica) to cheap and excellent (CV) AND is backwards compatible to about a century back? No way.
Unless you made a new proprietary non-adaptable mount to force the RF crowd to ditch their vast selection of lenses and buy into a whole new system that only has 3-4 lenses. Forget it.
So you\'d be stuck doing all the hard R&D work only to make a platform that helps Leica, Zeiss and CV to sell more of their own lenses, and you\'d only be selling the kit lens, if that. It just doesnt make sense from a business perspective...
there are companies with big budgets that have the luxury to commit R&D money to risky projects (eg Fuji) but they have already put their chips elsewhere (XPro)
Jabberwockt wrote:
While it may sound trivial for one of the major Japanese makers to break onto the scene with a digital rangefinder, i suspect it is actually not. At minimum there needs to be a few lenses in different focal lengths. This would be a significant investment of time and resources. And if it fails to catch on, it could be a huge bust.
and it would fail to catch on, because how on earth would you sell your stuff in a vast lens market that ranges from perfect (Leica) to cheap and excellent (CV) AND is backwards compatible to about a century back? No way.
Unless you made a new proprietary non-adaptable mount to force the RF crowd to ditch their vast selection of lenses and buy into a whole new system that only has 3-4 lenses. Forget it.
So you\'d be stuck doing all the hard R&D work only to make a platform that helps Leica, Zeiss and CV to sell more of their own lenses, and you\'d only be selling the kit lens, if that. It just doesnt make sense from a business perspective...
there are companies with big budgets that have the luxury to commit R&D money to unusual projects (eg Fuji) but they have already put their chips elsewhere (XPro)
Nov 03, 2012 at 07:35 PM
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