>>4409660>Why did rangefinders go out of style among enthusiasts? Why get an SLR if you don't change lenses?around the same time, post WWII, Nikon and the other nip makers who had been making bootleg leicas got a reputation during the Korean war for making good shit and SLRs are obviously better for pros
>what you see is what you get>easier to use wider and more tele lenses>not much bigger than a range finder>can manually focus with any area of the screenCanon was also at a cross roads, do they make fake leicas, compete in a cheaper space or what and the engineers wanted to make cameras they could afford, so they produced the Canonet and Canon Demi along with the Rolli 35 these fixed lens rangefinders which would go on to evolve into the point and shoots killed Leica and the interchangeable lens rangefinder
want quality? buy a hasselblad or other medium format
want a pro camera? buy a nikon (or other japanese) SLR, they weren't much bigger than the leica rangefinders anyway
only care about cheap and portable and one lens is fine? buy a canonet or other fixed lens rangefinder/point and shoot
You see this now, although camera phones have killed the digital point and shoot market where enthusiasts who care about size buy Ricoh GRs and FujiX100s and small ILC cameras sold so poorly both Panasonic and Olympus stopped producing their small body lines. The whole
>m43 is as big as FFmeme isn't because M43 has to be that big, its because there is no market segment that wants a ILC the size of a rangefinder, not in 1970 and not now
