Surprise! Kodak finally displayed their first mirrorless system camera and they decided to join the popular Micro Four Thirds system! In an official press conference in Peking they announced the “Kodak S1” which will be released in Q3 of this year. There is no info about the exact specs but it should use a Sony CMOS sensor and built-in WiFi.
Source: PConline
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History is fascinating. 😉 They were uncomfortable being associated with Olympus (4/3rds era) which forced Olympus to go “live MOS” with Panasonic. 🙂
Olympus changed to Live MOS because Kodak sensors couldn’t do live view and generally underperformed.
Well… after all they have created the “Four Thirds” standard together with Olympus. I don’t know why Olympus switched to CMOS. AFAIR Kodak even tried to implement Live View in their last FT-Sensors.
I think the E-400 was originally supposed to get Live View. It was the last Olympus with a Kodak sensor, and it didn’t have an FFT CCD sensor as the earlier Kodak sensors used by Olympus, but an interline CCD design instead, which theoretically should have been able to provide Live View. I’ve seen images of an E-400 prototype with a live view button, and I’ve read reports of someone buying a used E-400 that showed some malfunctions – and sometimes went into live view, but it seems it was of less quality than what the E-330 with its Panasonic sensor already could do. The E-400 sensor had other flaws, too; it was really bad at high ISO where it tended to show stripe patterns coming from its interline design. That was possibly the one experience which was needed to make Olympus stop using Kodak sensors altogether.
The E-400 produced excellent out-of-camera JPEGs at low ISO, though, much better than the E-410/510 which followed shortly after.
?Now even kodak in into csc cameras. Looks like more and more players are going in to erode the small mirrorless market even more. Soon there will be 10 mirrorless players fighting for an even smaller portion of the small portion of pie. No wonder Canon and nikon dont wanna get into this segment.
not a Kodak CCD? then I dont want this one , hope it is wrong that this one uses a crappy Sony CMOS.
Who can make a CCD sensor to work with live view? Fuji tried and failed.
Isn’t every compact camera with CCD Sensor a live view camera?
yeah. LOL. Sony sbeen insulting its users and potential users for a very long time. the rx1 is one of those insults, at 3 grand for camer with no vf let alone a hood, sony thinks that people are so retarded they wont buy a d600 or 6d for 2 grand instead. LOL
if the sensor in thsi camera is really a Sony, then it is a big insult to Kodak name and history of it.
Have you heard expression, “beggars can’t be choosy”? Kodak sold their name to some unknown to make a camera and use their name. All that is Kodak in this is just the brand name and logos.
yeah but just sad , I love Kodak.
Beggars can be choosers….because they choose to beg. LOL
I didn’t even know Sony builds FT-sensors.
This is nothing but a Chinese camera with Kodak name on it. Probably sold as a low end m43 camera for less than $100.
it is a Taiwanese camera not a Chinese.
So? Can you make a camera?
Most previous Kodak digital camera were made in China or Vietnam, but did have more Kodak engineering or design
Is Kodak Chinese now? I think this is just like all those Android phones. Buy parts from Japanese OEM and assemble your own phone. The only R&D is case design.