Digital BW, The Print

Camera size is a big deal for me.  I shoot a couple of M6TTL's alongside
a D70. Nothing like an M6 in a tiny bag with a set of primes, or even no
bag just slung over the shoulder with a 2nd roll of film in the pocket. The
D70 with the 12-24 and a few primes is a large heavy kit by comparison.

But we already have the Epson/Cosina digital RF and next year should
bring Leica's digital M offering.  Zeiss is another hopeful.

Presuming the digital camera market develops in a similar manner to the
PC/consumer computing market,  I think we'll see more digi RF's, upscale
Contax T3 style digi P&S's and other various niche camera designs.

The digital guts of the camera will become comiditized (like CPU's and
chipsets in the PC market), allowing more R&D and manufacuring resources
to devote to other aspects of camera design. Manufacturers will design for
higher margin niches in search of profits in a competitive and more stable
market, or as "marquee" cameras to enforce brand identity.

At least we can hope so :-)

Tom Baker wrote:

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>   There may be more range finder professional cameras.  But, in 
> reality, there probably isn't enough demand to make it economicaly viable.
>   
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