Must commend Leica for making M8 in 2008. Leica M8 has a APS-H (27 x 18 mm) sensor and it is not full frame.
Crop factor is 1.33. M8 had problems as it was a first step by Leica to make mirrorless digital ILC.
1 year later in 2009 Leica introduced M9 that was its first full frame mirrorless digital but still rangefinder based.
Then in 2017 Leica introduced M10. The full frame M10 camera body is small and light.
But the price of M10 is high. Leica M users could use many (except for a few) of their wonderful + expensive M lenses on M9 and M10.
Put an Leica M10 next to the Olympus E-M1X that has a sensor that is 3.8 times smaller.
Shocking when you observe difference in body size relative to sensor size.
Also look at the thickness of the bodies.
So why did Olympus not go into full frame in 2013? Guess Olympus was not in the mood in 2013.
In October 2011 the Olympus USD$1.7 Billion fraud scandal was discovered.
In 2014, six banks sued Olympus for accounting fraud (Olympus issued false financial statements from 2000 to 2011) seeking 28 Billion Yen in damages. (USD$258 million).
The whole Olympus company almost collapsed and was rescued by Sony.
Agreed that now in 2020 the barrier to entry into full frame for Olympus is higher than it was in 2013.
If the full frame bar is now too high for Olympus to jump over, then Camera Imaging Division has to die a slow death clinging on to MFT.
Probably by the end of the 2020's decade, Olympus MFT cameras would be history.
Maybe a lot sooner.
Crop factor is 1.33. M8 had problems as it was a first step by Leica to make mirrorless digital ILC.
1 year later in 2009 Leica introduced M9 that was its first full frame mirrorless digital but still rangefinder based.
Then in 2017 Leica introduced M10. The full frame M10 camera body is small and light.
But the price of M10 is high. Leica M users could use many (except for a few) of their wonderful + expensive M lenses on M9 and M10.
Put an Leica M10 next to the Olympus E-M1X that has a sensor that is 3.8 times smaller.
Shocking when you observe difference in body size relative to sensor size.
Also look at the thickness of the bodies.
So why did Olympus not go into full frame in 2013? Guess Olympus was not in the mood in 2013.
In October 2011 the Olympus USD$1.7 Billion fraud scandal was discovered.
In 2014, six banks sued Olympus for accounting fraud (Olympus issued false financial statements from 2000 to 2011) seeking 28 Billion Yen in damages. (USD$258 million).
The whole Olympus company almost collapsed and was rescued by Sony.
Agreed that now in 2020 the barrier to entry into full frame for Olympus is higher than it was in 2013.
If the full frame bar is now too high for Olympus to jump over, then Camera Imaging Division has to die a slow death clinging on to MFT.
Probably by the end of the 2020's decade, Olympus MFT cameras would be history.
Maybe a lot sooner.
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