Well, this is a rumor site after all and we do not care a lot about existing cameras 🙂 So let’s talk about what’s coming as next!
First, Olympus manager Haruo said it loud and clear: The E-M5 successor is coming soon! (Source: 43rumors).
Second, the nice Fuji guys duo confirmed the X-PRO2 is on the roadmap and that it will be “worth the long wait”. It will not be a Full Frame camera. (Source: Fujirumors).
And now mark my words: I heard from trusted sources both cameras use a very new sensor tech. Mark my words. One day you will remember you heard it from me first. Will spill out more as soon as I get info about that new “tech”.
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New sensor tech? Although I’m a bit skeptical about organic sensor already, it might be it, they said 2015. I could see Fuji using that but for Olympus I’ve no idea what does that mean, it’s probably not the same tech. In some ways it’s weird to have such ground breaking new tech on the E-M5 before the E-M1 successor so I wonder what this new tech is.
Why is it so hard to understand? In November 2013 when the E-M1 came out this technology wasnt available… The hard core of 4/3 users asked for pro body – since the E-M5 has appeared. They had to introduce sth… And the E-M5 line is stil $1000 (semi-pro/enthusiast model). Competition is getting stronger, OMD life cycle is getting longer, they have to use the best what they have…
X-pro2 will be great if fast in operations and af. Possibly the best camera ever if endowed with high mp organic sensor!
Everybody jumped on the organic, while missing the “elephant in the room”.
The Samsung NX1 was just released – and it comes with the APS-C sized *BSI* sensor. IOW, the BSI process was finally made to work for the larger sensors.
As the organic tech goes, there were not enough news about. Had the manufacturing process been already ready, then the Fuji/Pana/TowerJazz/etc would have made a lot of noise about it. They would have advertised the process to other potential customers (== camera and chip manufacturers). News outlets would have been all over it. Yet…
Bsi is good (yet we have to see how good on big sensors), but organic will possibly be a breakthrough. Anyway we’ll wait and see…
Nobody’s arguing that organic would be a breakthrough. It would be a HUGE breakthrough. That’s why absence of news is so telling, IMO.
Organic appears to offer similar benefits to BSI.
http://www.fujifilm.com/news/n130611.html
I don’t see what is so exciting about that, 1.2x sensitivity (20% extra), and better chief ray angles. These are similar benefits of BSI.
Samsung commented that the sensels on the NX1 are about the same size as on the 20 MP sensor, even though it has 8 more MP. Same thing as organic sensor, the sensel itself can be larger when it is above the metal layers, so it is going to have same effect of increasing DR, light sensitivity, and ray angles. The Fuji sensor might have some differences with BSI, but overall is very similar looking.
I suppose wait and see, but Fuji is very good at hyping sensor technology that hasn’t panned out.
No body to build a hype for APSC; Serious mean FF; Hobby mean APSC.
bla bla. please don´t stay here, troll.
Serious photographers use only large format cameras…
… which are usually mirrorless too 🙂
“Serious mean FF; Hobby mean APSC”
BULLSHIT.