[LRflex] Re: Leica back in the black
- From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:07:11 -0800
Here is the problem...
The nonvolatile memories ( the program called Firmware) resides on chip or
in a chip on the main cpu board. These memories get bigger and bigger as
feature sizes of chips get smaller. Older, smaller technologies and
memories get discontinued because the technologies are not used by the
majority of users ( because they want to add more features requiring bigger
memories ), are abandoned or the manufacturer decides to negate them and
force users to go to bigger chips. So the engineers in conjunction with
marketing use the bigger memories space to add features ( remember, the FW
is written once, and costs NOTHING to reproduce on a unit level). Remember
the cost is nothing.
Then, with more features, the price can be raised..... or rather the raise
is justifiable or the buyer gets more bang for his buck. Does anyone NEED
the enhancements? Probably only a few... but the cost was nothing and the
marketing guys can claim that they have more features......
Thus the very thick operating handbooks for new digital cameras, compared to
the few pages for a M3.
You will not see less features, as it is counterproductive and
counter-intuitive to the companies that make electronics.....
Frank Filippone
Red735i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
.... the camera manufacturers run up the number of doo-dads, features and
buttons to impress unwary buyers (But wait! Mine has more buttons than yours
has!),............
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