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When one manufacturer couldn't preclude other peers to squeeze into the market,the only way is to share the huge market,no one could seize the all the stalls,without bayonets on the mounts no matter exterior or interior,consumers could choose other way,such as 39mm standard screw mount system.
At the particular epoch,the global rivalry between photo equipment colossuses is like that what couldn't and hand't take over all the stalls in the market.So no one could really open a litigation against competitors.In the condition,after EXAKTA's revolutionary effort on the interchangeable lens's junction to SLR bodies,all firms had been excavating their own mount,equiped with lens to produce the special brunt,there was still no one who could be the justifiable king at indisputable seat.While the future Hercules Nikon and Canon,even the Pentax,no one sharing the market with the quota like today they are.To some extent,to castigate in judical procedures could mean directly oneself's extinct.
However in another part of the market which were at its equilibrium to the other part of SLRs,Rangefinders' producers were lurched after a giant.Leitz had always been,and at least seemed to be the prominent and perpetual leader in this realm.By the means of anachronic M3 in mid fifties,it casted the crown of itself so that it had the weapon to supress whom were too rebellious that could be a real threat exist in the world of camera.
The condition is totally different from the SLR market.Gross market is a constant span,within it a paramount dominator there,So it is necessary to prevent a powerful descendant from taking the patrimony as its inherited capital to stir the market.When the best tool to maintain the special supremacy is the patent of M bayonet and the relavent ones,without it,Canon couldn't creat its own frame alternative mechanism,but the redundant dial on the top of the chrome body,which take the room of flash shoe that caused the inconvenience far larger than the expediency it brought to canon 7 series rangefinders.
Especially,when the predominant market of 35mm rangefiners suffered influence of SLR,a somewhat fierce competitions had been showing,on the stage,only one should survive as the key role,others could only be costars,overturning is impossible.
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