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Originally Posted by sdai
It's simply hard to understand that Leica let one company (or just themselves) design the DSP but hire another company to program it.
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Leica were starting a long way back and even now, it's not clear how much of the critical knowledge of electronics and DSP they have built in house. Sub-contracting may be a short term convenience, but if Leica are serious about this digital photography thing, they need to develop their own unique store of IP rather than warmed-over IP from someone else which, by definition, is Old News.
The quality of Leica's lenses is based on expertise achieved over decades with optical design and fabrication. They need to do the same with DSP.