Leica entering m4/3?

[walkaround]

Dheorl wrote:

I don't see much chance of them having a 100% zoom being the only way on manual focus.

Actually I agree with you. But maybe we have a more religious view of Leica than they seem to have of themselves. They are a very opportunistic company, willing to put their name all over low end Japanese compacts in order to make money. So frankly, they are capable of anything.

 

[Dheorl]

walkaround wrote:

Dheorl wrote:

I don't see much chance of them having a 100% zoom being the only way on manual focus.

Actually I agree with you. But maybe we have a more religious view of Leica than they seem to have of themselves. They are a very opportunistic company, willing to put their name all over low end Japanese compacts in order to make money. So frankly, they are capable of anything.

No matter what their view of themselves is, they already have focus peaking in their cameras. I see no reason why it wouldn't be included in what they release next.

 

[Ulfric M Douglas]

Valentinian wrote:

...

a "Leica" EVF has to be better, it should rival the mirror of the best DSLR, or it won't make sense.

Yes. Leica will not be in a happy position once Olympus' VF-2 starts shipping (their own EVF is a rebadged VF-2) so will have to offer their own VF-4 ... with a body to use it on.

Hopefully a Leica version of the G6 made all squareish and metally : or at least not ugly.

 

[CharlesB58]

Leica was also a member of the 4/3 consotrium but withdrew a couple of years ago to focus on other projects.

 

[l_objectif]

rather:

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[rusticus]

Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

APS-C with M-Bajonet

3000 bis 4000 Dollar

 

[tedolf]

walkaround wrote:

tedolf wrote:

Panasonic makes the D-Lux 6.

I'm aware of that, which was my whole point. Leica doesn't make anything, except a few lenses. The entire guts and processing of their cameras is outsourced.

what is your point agiain?



How does it relate to what I posted?



Thanks.



Tedolph

 

[Barugon]

walkaround wrote:

tedolf wrote:

Leica has a licensing agreement with Panasonic.

Do you think any Licensee would sign a License Agreement allowing the Licensor to compete with them in the same marketplace?

Yes, they already do. The D-Lux6 "competes" with the LX7 for example.

Panasonic makes the D-Lux 6.



Tedolph

Perhaps the mini M will be the same as the GX2.

 

[tedolf]

dotborg wrote:

walkaround wrote:

tedolf wrote:

Leica has a licensing agreement with Panasonic.

Do you think any Licensee would sign a License Agreement allowing the Licensor to compete with them in the same marketplace?

Yes, they already do. The D-Lux6 "competes" with the LX7 for example.

Panasonic makes the D-Lux 6.

Tedolph

Perhaps the mini M will be the same as the GX2.

simply re-brand an exsiting Panny u 4/3 camera with a red dot they would have done that with the GF-1.



The fact that they did not and have not since then (look at how much the G6 looks like an R9!) should tell you something about their Agreement with Panasonic.





Tedolph

 

[Dheorl]

tedolf wrote:

dotborg wrote:

walkaround wrote:

tedolf wrote:

Leica has a licensing agreement with Panasonic.

Do you think any Licensee would sign a License Agreement allowing the Licensor to compete with them in the same marketplace?

Yes, they already do. The D-Lux6 "competes" with the LX7 for example.

Panasonic makes the D-Lux 6.

Tedolph

Perhaps the mini M will be the same as the GX2.

simply re-brand an exsiting Panny u 4/3 camera with a red dot they would have done that with the GF-1.

The fact that they did not and have not since then (look at how much the G6 looks like an R9!) should tell you something about their Agreement with Panasonic.

Tedolph

Maybe they didn't think the GF-1 was worthy of the red dot.

I don't think it tells us anything about the agreement those two companies have tbh. Lets be fair, panny and Leica are hardly going after the same market segment.


Also considering the G6 really wasn't released that long ago, maybe this will just be a rebadged G6.

 

[Fazal Majid]

Leica is on record as saying m43 image quality is inadequate, they would not have made those statements if they had a m43 camera in development:

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“One reason why we've decided not to move into Micro Four Thirds is that we have looked at the sensor size and realized that it cannot produce the image quality that we need. Therefore we decided to stick with the full format in addition to APS-C,” Enhardt continued. “It's all about the ratios.”

--

Fazal Majid (http://www.majid.info)

 

[JosephScha]

So it seems incredibly unlikely that Leica has forgotten it and is about to introduce a micro four thirds camera.

Personally, I'd be very happy if they did ... maybe they have created (or had created for them) a far better micro four thirds sensor, that meets their standards. But... I think probability is vanishingly small.

 

[tedolf]

tedolf wrote:

dotborg wrote:

walkaround wrote:

tedolf wrote:

Leica has a licensing agreement with Panasonic.

Do you think any Licensee would sign a License Agreement allowing the Licensor to compete with them in the same marketplace?

Yes, they already do. The D-Lux6 "competes" with the LX7 for example.

Panasonic makes the D-Lux 6.

Tedolph

Perhaps the mini M will be the same as the GX2.

simply re-brand an exsiting Panny u 4/3 camera with a red dot they would have done that with the GF-1.

The fact that they did not and have not since then (look at how much the G6 looks like an R9!) should tell you something about their Agreement with Panasonic.

Tedolph

Maybe they didn't think the GF-1 was worthy of the red dot.

I don't think it tells us anything about the agreement those two companies have tbh. Lets be fair, panny and Leica are hardly going after the same market segment.


Also considering the G6 really wasn't released that long ago, maybe this will just be a rebadged G6.

like I said,I just don't understand ahy eople can not accept reality.

Tedolph

 

[captura]

Just as the Leica D-LUX 6 is the expensive version of the Lumix LX-7, the 'Mini' might be the Leica version of the recently announced compact Panasonic LF-1, itself a highly modded version of the LX-7 with a different lens and an EVF.

 

[RoelHendrickx]

l_objectif wrote:

rather:



--
Louis
My DPR Gallery (Shots with Dlux3, Dlux4,Dlux5, Nikon D300)
My contributions to DPR Challenges:

;-)

--
Roel Hendrickx
lots of images: www.roelh.zenfolio.com
my E-3 user field report from Tunisian Sahara: http://www.biofos.com/ukpsg/roel.html

 

[Ben C Davis]

Fazal Majid wrote:

Leica is on record as saying m43 image quality is inadequate, they would not have made those statements if they had a m43 camera in development:

http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/artic...e-leica-lenses-your-micro-four-thirds-digicam

“One reason why we've decided not to move into Micro Four Thirds is that we have looked at the sensor size and realized that it cannot produce the image quality that we need. Therefore we decided to stick with the full format in addition to APS-C,” Enhardt continued. “It's all about the ratios.”

--

Fazal Majid (http://www.majid.info)

That was posted "Posted 07.28.2010 at 2:45 pm" all most 3 years ago.

 

[Dheorl]

tedolf wrote:

tedolf wrote:

dotborg wrote:

walkaround wrote:

tedolf wrote:

Leica has a licensing agreement with Panasonic.

Do you think any Licensee would sign a License Agreement allowing the Licensor to compete with them in the same marketplace?

Yes, they already do. The D-Lux6 "competes" with the LX7 for example.

Panasonic makes the D-Lux 6.

Tedolph

Perhaps the mini M will be the same as the GX2.

simply re-brand an exsiting Panny u 4/3 camera with a red dot they would have done that with the GF-1.

The fact that they did not and have not since then (look at how much the G6 looks like an R9!) should tell you something about their Agreement with Panasonic.

Tedolph

Maybe they didn't think the GF-1 was worthy of the red dot.

I don't think it tells us anything about the agreement those two companies have tbh. Lets be fair, panny and Leica are hardly going after the same market segment.

Also considering the G6 really wasn't released that long ago, maybe this will just be a rebadged G6.

like I said,I just don't understand ahy eople can not accept reality.

Tedolph

Because sometimes dreaming can be a nice thing to do.

 

[Revenant]

walkaround wrote:

tedolf wrote:

Panasonic makes the D-Lux 6.

I'm aware of that, which was my whole point. Leica doesn't make anything, except a few lenses. The entire guts and processing of their cameras is outsourced.

That's only true if we're talking about the D-Lux (Panasonic LX), V-Lux (Panasonic superzooms) and C-Lux (Panasonic P&S) cameras, and the old Digilux 2 and 3, which were rebranded versions of the Panasonic LC1 and L1.

The S, M and X series cameras are all designed by and manufactured by Leica. Of course, they buy electronic components from other companies, but other camera makers do that too.

Since Leica is a member of the m4/3 consortium, and since they released a rebranded Panasonic Four Thirds DSLR, I don't see why a rebranded Panasonic GX2 (or some other m4/3 camera) would be an impossibility.

 

[tedolf]

Dheorl wrote:

tedolf wrote:

tedolf wrote:

dotborg wrote:

walkaround wrote:

tedolf wrote:

Leica has a licensing agreement with Panasonic.

Do you think any Licensee would sign a License Agreement allowing the Licensor to compete with them in the same marketplace?

Yes, they already do. The D-Lux6 "competes" with the LX7 for example.

Panasonic makes the D-Lux 6.

Tedolph

Perhaps the mini M will be the same as the GX2.

simply re-brand an exsiting Panny u 4/3 camera with a red dot they would have done that with the GF-1.

The fact that they did not and have not since then (look at how much the G6 looks like an R9!) should tell you something about their Agreement with Panasonic.

Tedolph

Maybe they didn't think the GF-1 was worthy of the red dot.

I don't think it tells us anything about the agreement those two companies have tbh. Lets be fair, panny and Leica are hardly going after the same market segment.

Also considering the G6 really wasn't released that long ago, maybe this will just be a rebadged G6.

like I said,I just don't understand ahy eople can not accept reality.

Tedolph

Because sometimes dreaming can be a nice thing to do.

You have an unhealthy fixation on gear.



Really, is the camera you have not good enough for what you do?





Tedolph

 

[Dheorl]

tedolf wrote:

Dheorl wrote:

tedolf wrote:

tedolf wrote:

dotborg wrote:

walkaround wrote:

tedolf wrote:

Leica has a licensing agreement with Panasonic.

Do you think any Licensee would sign a License Agreement allowing the Licensor to compete with them in the same marketplace?

Yes, they already do. The D-Lux6 "competes" with the LX7 for example.

Panasonic makes the D-Lux 6.

Tedolph

Perhaps the mini M will be the same as the GX2.

simply re-brand an exsiting Panny u 4/3 camera with a red dot they would have done that with the GF-1.

The fact that they did not and have not since then (look at how much the G6 looks like an R9!) should tell you something about their Agreement with Panasonic.

Tedolph

Maybe they didn't think the GF-1 was worthy of the red dot.

I don't think it tells us anything about the agreement those two companies have tbh. Lets be fair, panny and Leica are hardly going after the same market segment.

Also considering the G6 really wasn't released that long ago, maybe this will just be a rebadged G6.

like I said,I just don't understand ahy eople can not accept reality.

Tedolph

Because sometimes dreaming can be a nice thing to do.

You have an unhealthy fixation on gear.

Really, is the camera you have not good enough for what you do?

Tedolph

It's plenty enough for most of what I do. Could do with a faster sync speed and I wouldn't mind about having the characteristics of a bigger sensor some of the time.

What can I say, I'm impressed by fine quality engineering. Leica is pretty much the epitomy of that when it comes to cameras (although yes, I realise if it is just a rebranded panasonic then it won't have that same usual Leica quality). Leica producing a camera that is afordable and usable day to day would be very appealing to me.