Egami found a new Panasonic patent showing a motorized zoom teleconverter. Don’t know if we will ever see this for real! First we need an adapter with built in phase detection af and optical Viewfinder to attach on m43 cameras like the [shoplink 31778 ebay]Leica Visoflex (here on eBay)[/shoplink]. 🙂
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Motorized zoom teleconverter – interesting idea!
I agree that some kind of solution that enables PDAF is more urgent, but I don’t think it’s going to come from Panasonic – they made a small number of 4/3 lenses and most of them have good CDAF. It’s Olympus that need to make a PDAF adapter or enable it on sensor.
From translation it looks like the zoom TC starts at 1.0x
If it also has an internal focus unit any FT lens could be used with CDAF.
PDAF for predictive focus is another point and will most likely be implemented on sensor. For the lens system the source of focus system doesn’t make a difference.
Interesting but there are no Panny lenses that would benefit (yet). I agree with Admin though, that PDAF would be more helpful for both Panny and Oly so we can use our MFT cameras for accurate focus tracking shots.
Phase Detection belongs on the sensor not on some clumsy adapter…
+1. Nikon did it first on a system camera. Hopefully Panasonic will perfect it on the GH3…….he says hopefully!
So, would this zoom teleconverter add zooming to a prime, or what? Sorry, I don’t get it 🙂
> and optical Viewfinder to attach on m43 cameras like the Leica Visoflex
LOL. One of the first photos when googling for the Leica Visoflex:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/realityscans/4109027090/
Somebody took your words literally and did attach Visioflex to the m43 🙂
P.S. And there are more of them, e.g. without a billow:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joleye/4327532711/