Megapixel (Click here) had a small talk with Sungrok Kim – Samsung’s regional product manager for Digital Imaging (Middle East & North Africa). There are a couple of interesting notes:
1) “We have the technology to develop a medium format cameras but we are not going to do that because this is not our market.“..:”What you see in the image was developed for internal purposes in order to look into future technologies.”. My question to our readers, would you develop a medium format camera just for fun? 🙂
2) And again read that: “we developed a 1000mm lens for astronomical use – but again just for internal purposes.”. Looks like Samsung employees are big fans of astronomy 😉
3) “We are also working on an adaptor for Pentax lenses although it currently does not support autofocus.“
4) “Samsung is currently developing a new generation of APS-C CMOS sensors with higher resolution for its future line of compact system cameras. We defiantly have plans to expend both the exiting lines and create new ones.”
I suggest you to read the full interview at Megapixel (Click here) to learn more!
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Oh no, he mentioned all the already leaked lenses will be anounced this year except the 16mm f2.4. I want that 16mm!
Why don’t samsung just buy Pentax for pennies and get billions in return? WHY?
I so wanted samsung to buy pentax, incorporate built inbody stabilization and weather sealing with pentax high quality pancake primes and samsung’s primes, it would have been the best system.
If they make a small adapter with autofocus to work those pancake primes it would also give them a huge advantage as it is. (didn’t samsung already work with pentax in the past and should have the specs for the mount?)
Yes they do! They even produce a cam with pentax mount. Samsung needed this so badly. Even more than sony needed konica minolta back in the day.
Also samsung is far bigger company than ricoh.. This just doesn’t make sense
> We defiantly have plans to expend both the exiting lines and create new ones.
defiantly? or definitely?
expend? or expand?
exiting? or existing?
OMG, this phrase might have so many meanings: “Samsungs exiting the camera business altogether” to “Samsungs with persistence would expand its camera business”
Noticed this too. Trying to work out what they mean gave me a headache.
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i have a brain tumor now thanks samsung
They probably don’t need Pentax in their notoriously nationalistic home markets… they just need to sell enough to achieve scale. But for Pentax-ricoh’s long term survival having Samsung behind them bodes very well for them.
Medium Format is not their market right now, because they don’t offer any. Samsung should buy Rolleiflex again (they briefly partnered with them in the 1990s).
“would you develop a medium format camera just for fun?”
I would and have, although that was a pinhole.
If you scale-up the resources that I used to the size of Samsung, they could definitely make a dent in the market.
The past few years have shown us that there’s a market for fun cameras outside of the mainstream. Look at how much (essentially) free publicity Fuji is getting from their X100. That’s a camera niche that hasn’t been mainstream for 40 years!
Right now a company like Samsung could make any camera, but the real question is, is there a market?
Samsung doesn´t need the Pentax mount in the mirrorless market.
Whole interview was ok, that are the exactly questions that I would ask, but any info about the EX1/TL500 substitute would be appreciated.
This interview stinks. Is a full frame NX or mirrorless coming?
Samsung should produce a Medium format or near Medium format camera. Especially if you can mount 35mm legacy lenses on it.
A MF camera would be a great “halo” product for Samsung, demonstrating what the company can really do.
The guy sounds boastful that Samsung designed this and that. If Samsung is so innovative, why don’t they release these great products?
Talk is cheap!
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I would buy a medium format mirrorless in a heartbeat. the bigger the sensor, the bigger the size and weight advantage of going mirrorless.