The author used the 25mm, 50mm, and 85mm all t/1.8 Red primes. Mounted with the Hot Rod PL deluxe adapter kit.
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17-68 T2.2 Angénieux zoom from 1956 with a Panasonic G1 (Forum Olympus France)
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Mirrorless will be like Netbook (bythom)
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Panasonic GF-1 and Sigma 10-20 4/3s Review (Davidclapp.co.uk)
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„While all the camera makers are piling into the mirrorless market (Sony should be the next to announce, on May 11th), I expect in the end most of them will be a bit disappointed. The reason: it’ll be a short trend.”
LOL
Bythom’s analysis doesn’t convince me. The mirrorless camera is one of those ‘perfect products’ much like the iPod and it’s variants. The iPod ticks all the boxes and there is a variant to suit everyone with the same, basic concept. They are all solid-state, easy to use music players. Need the smallest size, no screen? You’ve got a Shuffle. Need small size, but with a screen? You’ve got a Nano etc etc.
Applying this to mirrorless, the product is ‘perfect’ because you have small size (tick), high quality (even compared to SLR, tick), and room to grow with lenses and accessories (tick). There is no ‘downside’ to the product (except the mirror box viewfinder, but the removal of that is the whole point!).
If you want the highest build quality, maximum control, you’ve got the EP-2; if you want a high-quality compact but with more automation and guidance for the beginner, you’ve got the EPL-1; if you want something in between, there’s the GF-1. Just like the iPod, there’s something for everyone.
Bythom is suggesting that, because netbooks have reached ‘saturation point’, this does not bode well for the mirrorless-compact market. The reason netbooks (and the iPod) have reached ‘saturation point’ in their markets is because they are highly-desirable, very popular products. Saturation point suggests that a manufacturer has got it right, not wrong.
“If you want the highest build quality, maximum control, you’ve got the EP-2; if you want a high-quality compact but with more automation and guidance for the beginner, you’ve got the EPL-1; if you want something in between, there’s the GF-1. Just like the iPod, there’s something for everyone.”
And don’t forget the GH2 which promises to be a rather expensive but a high quality, really upper-midrange camera.
This analysis forgets the huge trend to video thatbis well implemented with mirrorless. Sony NEX may be a major success with it’s backlite sensor and HD video – a true hybrid.
Copy/paste of my post on this from a couple of days ago:
Main reasons for netbook sales going down is the small screen ( judging by numerous friends’ comments ) and a very slow pace of innovation. The basic configuration has barely changed since the introduction of the Atom processor. Inside there’s still 1.6 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, bad integrated graphic card, while the hard drives have gone from 160 to 250 GB max. Is 90 GB of HDD space all that could be put in there in two years ??? Connectivity is also lousy: only selected models have 3G card slot, HDMI, GPS etc. And even fewer have touch screens. The truth is that the first Atom-based netbooks were too powerful for that time and the price, so they are being deliberately held from improving in order not to harm laptop sales and also by some Microsoft restrictions.
There is much healthier competition in the digital camera market and mirrorless is the natural step in large sensor camera evolution. They will eventually catch up with DSLR performance. For current DSLR owners, who have invested much in their gear, they are bad news, because the pace of development of DSLRs is going to be slower and slower, but that has always happened in technology and will continue to happen.