On 2011-04-18 08:26 , Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I was at the camera shop on Saturday and spent some time evaluating a Leica M8. Yeah, yeah, the red dot costs a fortune. What appealed to me was its stark simplicity: everythiing on the camera enables, motivates you to concentrate on the subject and the task at hand, not fuss with camera settings or optional feature configurations. Why is such a tool for the photographer exclusive to those whose pay grade is several stratospheric levels higher than mine? Can it really be that expensive to build a simpler camera without all the fluffy stuff?
i don't really follow Leica, but i expect all of the below has been said before:
under current market conditions, one appealß to a much wider audience by including the fluffy stuff; some of the fluffy stuff actually addresses niche needs, and a lot of the fluffy stuff is cheap to include (so one challenge is to include fluff without alienating refined users)
so fluff ==> economies of scale Leica probably also avoids competing on price to keep profit margins high -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
