SO in the end…it’s possible! You can fit a large FF sensor inside that E-mount. Now I am really wondering why they did it on a camcorder but not on a NEX-7 alike camera. We really have to ask Sony managers what they are waiting for…
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They are waiting for Zeiss to make rumored CSC lenses (they all will be for NEX only, of course).
They probably haven’t done it in a stills camera because the corner performance would be atrocious. They probably don’t use the whole sensor for video – and resolution is lower – so they might be able to get away with it for video, but stills? I don’t think so.
Corner performance could be fine with newly designed lenses, but I imagine with legacy LM lenses it won’t be that good for stills as you say, depending on how they designed the sensor. I like the short flange distance, even for full frame, as you can always make it longer by adding extension to the lenses or add adapters for Sony A or other mount lenses.
Eric
Maybe they are waiting for a market for a US$12,000 NEX still camera…? (Might be a long wait…)
It looks like the mount clips the corners of the sensor? Seems like the rear element of the lens will have to be bang up against the sensor.
This looks like a hoax.
Lenses. They’re waiting for lenses.
even if e mount lenses CAN cover the full frame… think about it? how will the edge quality be? as it is most of the lenses available on the crop sensor are marginally acceptable, i’d hate to see what the corners look like. they’d have to make a lot of new FF optimized lenses, which will NOT be cheap.
I believe video full frame is a different (smaller) format than what we call “full frame” (24x36mm)
The ‘Super 35’ sensor is a 1.5X crop, just like the earlier VG cams. This is a real full frame sensor, the largest put in a conventional camcorder.
They are, of course, waiting for as much as possible an amount of money to come in from the RX1 and from this camcorder, before starting to sell a full-blown FF NEX camera which would cannibalize much of the RX1 sales and maybe a small amount of camcorder sales, too.
Well, I just watched The Reverend, which is shot on the Panasonic AF-101. The movie looks like an episode of Heartbeat. A big sensor is a good start for that cinema look.
There were never any doubt that you could fit a FF sensor in a NEX-mount. It’s wider than Nikon F, about the same as Olympus OM. It’s much smaller than Eos though so some lens designs might not be possible.
Current NEX lenses designed for APS-C image circle wouldn’t work well so Sony might not have the resources to launch a FF still camera at the moment. A professional video camera don’t need a lot of dedicated AF lenses before launch as it will be used with adapters and high end manual everything lenses anyway.
But I’d like to talk to the guy who decided to make the RX1 a fixed lens camera in stead of a FF NEX, even with only one lens available.
The guy who made that FF Sony fixed lens cam is a student from the master Fuji, over there at Fuji camp.
What are they waiting for?
žThey a re waiting to squeeze these last few pennies from our pockets by releasing good stuff painfully slowly.
This will need huge lenses. Much too big for NEX still cameras. Thats why they haven’t made a NEX camera. They still dont have the lens designs which are small enough for NEX bodies but cover full frame sensors.
The Zeiss ZM Planar designs should work. The biogons unfortunately may not be acceptable.