On Thu, Sep 12, 2013, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Sep 12, 2013, at 10:15 PM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Exactly! Therefore anyone who isn't already invested in Leica will have >> little to zero interest in that module. Lacking an AF replaceable lens >> module severely limits the market for the GXR. If it had a built-in EVF, >> the non-replaceable-lens modules would be more interesting. > > Well ... The history of this camera seems to suggest otherwise. > > The GXR sold in modest quantities from the time it was introduced > until the announcement that a camera mount for M-bayonet lenses > would become available. It took seven months from the time of that > announcement to when it reached the market, in which time period > sales of the GXR and the original AF camera modules increased > dramatically. The release of the A12 Camera Mount incited far far more > camera sales than Ricoh was prepared for, world-wide, and even today > new buyers of the GXR pop up on the various rangefinder and Leica > forums extolling how great it is, and how wonderful it is that they > have discovered it. > [...]
Sure, from the standpoint of, again, existing Leica owners. But Boris is pushing the GXR for people who are not already in that group, that's where the market is limited, and I don't understand why he's pushing it so hard, especially in a thread where the OP (Marnie) specifically said that a viewfinder is important to her. That's what doesn't make sense. And also in the larger market sense, if the GXR is going to challenge people's ideas of how a camera works, it probably needs modules for existing AF lenses, Ricoh otherwise is in the awkward position of needing to justify expensive lens/sensor combos (they must also be expensive to develop). Essentially, the GXR fits in the buyer mindset for ILCs, but Ricoh can't by itself develop a full range for it. This is not an argument that Ricoh should have abandoned the GXR, obviously it fits a need for many people. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
