Kenko’ announced their mirrorless C-mount digital camera with 14 megapixel sensor. It’s a very “basic” camera, it can’t take videos and it doesn’t have a built-in flash. It will be on market in Summer for about $300. If you look on the image above you will see many awesome fast C-mount lenses which you usually can find on . Those lenses are usually made for video use only so don’t expect them to be good. But on the other hand they are very cheap. . It will certainly not be a Micro Four Thirds or NEX competitor but I bet it could become a very popular camera!
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Fantastic idea! I don’t know how their business plan looks like, because this is proposition for pure enthisiasts and ebay-crawlers, so they sell a camera and that’s all money they get.. But as choice os c-mount is huge and cheap, one can find interesting creative device in such a toy! can be real fun and start a new community, like lomography. Thumbs up!
Once ðey get to miniaturise it furðer, it could become *ðe* digital Pentax Auto 110.
And once miniaturisation gets even better, Micro Four þirds will be it.
if it could do video… I’d buy 2.
Good and bad to me. Good thing is we can have more fun of using c-mount lens without any adapter. And it might cover the whole sensor. But the bad thing is it is just DC quality. No RAW, no big sensor, don’t expect it can even give same quality as Canon G12 or Panasonic LX5. The worse thing is it might cost $400 USD for such a non-professional product. So, sorry,no interest.
it would be a little more interesting if it had video but it’s really unfortunate that it has no raw.
still may be worth checking out if it’s cheap enough. wouldn’t be surprised if $300 creeps up to $500 though.
if this does take-off the unfortunate irony is that all those inexpensive ebay c mount lenses will go up in price.
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Is this still happening????