On Sep 25, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Toralf Lund wrote:
From where I'm standing, "Leica" looks like much less of a name in the MF market than in 35mm, comparatively speaking. Meaning that "Hasselblad" seems at least as big.
Leica never made a medium format film camera. So they have no "name" in medium format camera circles.
Digital cameras are not really "medium format" cameras, however, and the only "names" in that marketplace, to date, are Hasselblad/Fuji, PhaseOne, and Leaf/Rollei. That makes it a pretty nice market with only a few competitors, selling only pretty high-end gear, all of which is, by definition, pretty new. Established leadership there is up for grabs.
I do think it would be nice if Hoya/Pentax would get their collective arse moving on that front with the 645D. I'm sure they have business reasons for the delays to deal with, but there are a lot of Pentax MF users who would be made happy with the release of this camera.
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