I will give you a quick update about the competition. Sony is going to announce the new NEX camera on Tuesday. The specs have been published on SonyAlphaRumors.
Samsung will also announce a new NX camera very soon (k-rumors.com). The new NX5 will be a cheaper Samsung NX10Samsung NX10
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version which is aimed to compete in the same league of the Panasonic G2
And finally a crazy rumors: Leica will announce a fullframe EVIL system for Photokina (Leicarumors.com)
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Ahhh the names are confusiong me….EP…NX NEX
Confusion by purpose i guess.
Wow! I hope the Leica rumor is true. I know, it’s just a rumor, and what a crazy rumor, but still…
I’ve been dreaming for a company, any company, to make a small camera with Contax AX focusing, moving the sensor back and forth. It was complex with film (you had to move almost all the camera -film, roll, shutter, prism, mirror, inner frame..) but it is far easier now with digital (and we already have moving sensors for stabilization -and some Pentax even move the sensor back and forth, just a little).
It will allow for far cheaper stellar lenses (no moving elements inside!) and be compatible with almost any current or past lens in the market (just place them at infinity, or move the focus ring to get extra macro), and you get AF! I could get AF with those excellent Contax G lenses I own, my favourite lenses ever.
And it makes sense for Leica because it is the easier way, and perhaps the only way, to get AF for all their current M lenses. Just imagine that. All of a sudden, the M system is an AF system.
What a dream!
Oh, yes, I miss Contax so much. How I hate you Kyocera. 😛
What about us, m43? Any hope for a solid rumor before summer? It seems about time for a new Oly announcement based on previous years experience. Thanks
That Leica rumor ain’t happening. Even if it is it won’t happen anywhere near that price.
That rumor is from Valentin Sama blog.
http://valentinsama.blogspot.com/
Will be like Pentax M4/3?
Hi Robert!
We already wrote about that Pentax rumor.
Re the Leica “full-frame” rumor… as that Olympus executive said, “full of what?”
In the EVIL era, every camera and lens system is designed to a specific imager size. In Micro Four Thirds, 17.3 x 13mm is the “full frame.” In the Samsung NX system, 23.4mm x 15.6mm is the “full frame.” And so forth.
If the rumor is that Leica will announce an EVIL camera in the 36x24mm “nostalgia format,” the rumor-mongers should be specific about it… although I agree that this rumor itself is probably “full of” something…
First: Leica needs a CMOS FF sensor doesn’t a CCD, how will make it?
Second: AF system by sensor moving, what happen with the focal length? If you move the sensor 5mm to focus with a 50mm lens the focal distance change 5mm.
Din, that’s exactly what you do when focusing any lens, so no problems there. In fact, google about the Conatx AX, it worked (and it was a film camera).
Just focus the lens to infinity, them the sensor separates from the lens more and more, acting like a set of extension tubes, allowing for closer focus as the sensor moves. The only problem is that the longer the focal length, the more you need to separate the sensor, and the Contax AX could autofocus lenses up to 180mm. Longer than that and you had problems.
Another plus is that once the sensor moves all it is allowed, you can still move the lens’ focus ring from the infinity position, being able to focus closer than the lens originally could, transforming any lens into a close focusing or macro lens.
It’s a brilliant idea that can led us to better lenses (no moving elements inside for primes) as long as the system can be made affordable and reliable.
Jose, do you want non-moving element?
This is the future of AF system… Solid-State Optics
http://www.lensvector.com/
And you want to know who could be one of the first one to use it…
http://www.lensvector.com/pdfs/LVFoxconnPR20100211.pdf
First, camera phone, after…
Well Din, that looks like the future, I agree.