A fake Full Frame K11 designed by Ron Hendriks.
I know of quite a many readers here patiently waiting for a Full Frame mirrorless camera that doesn’t cost $8,000 like a Leica M9/MP/Monchrome camera. A real mirrorless without rangefinder system and Electronic Viewfinder. There is maybe some (crazy) hope!
According to a DChome rumor picked up and translated by RiceHigh Pentax will launch the most compact Full Frame body ever made by March 2013. It will use the 24 Megapixel Sony FF sensor we will first see in use for the upcoming Sony A99 and Nikon D600.
It may be crazy but Pentax is one of the few companies capable of launching completely “different” products. I certainly hope the rumor is true!
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A Pentax FF mirrorless will be ugly with slow auto-focus.
Seriously, I don’t understand the obsession with FF anyway.
Higher IQ, of course, with not so great difference in lens size.
Why FF?: If you aim at HQ photo, a larger sensor is one very important help. The tonality and detail is improved compared to smaller sensors. Resolution, crispness is better.
Photographers ask for resolution and that almost 3D look. Here a larger sensor with many HQ pixels is very important. Of course the lens quality is equally important.
Not all photography needs this higher level! Not all who have a camera can spot the difference. Personally I see at once, on screen, the difference between a m43 file and a “FF” file. If you cannot see the difference, you do not need an FF and save by that a lot of money 🙂 !
BTW: It is a proven fact that a large file, say 36 mpix, will downsampled to, say 1600 pixel width looks better on screen than a file of say 16 mpix that also is downsampled to 1600 pix width. All else being the same. The same goes for prints regardless of size.
You cannot see this from all the 100% testshots that are fludding the internet, you need real world photo + own judgement opposite to measure.
no viewfinder???
“…a Full Frame mirrorless camera that doesn’t cost $800 like a Leica M9/MP/Monchrome camera.”
In what world does a M9/MP/Monochrome camera cost $800? LOL
I think you mean $8,000…
can’t they just make a full frame leica m-mount sensor module for the ricoh gxr? that’s what they should have done in the first place.
anyhow, it will be great if the pentax full frame is the same size as the leica cl and has an evf in the corner like the sony nex-7 (with focus peaking).
+1
most likely loosing the AF would turn of quite a few from a M-mount camera.
Let’s hope they do it and it sells like crazy, so that Canon or Sony do it too.
… and a Pentax Q11 with a 1″ (Nikon CX) sensor. The Q-mount would be wide enough.
`Full Frame mirrorless camera that doesn’t cost $800 like a Leica M9/MP/Monchrome camera. A real mirrorless without rangefinder system and Electronic Viewfinder.` and the size of a dslr. whats the point?
K-mount mirrorless? No, thanks.
Let they start another M-mount compatible (via adapters, or extended M-mount with for things like aperture control, autofocus, etc) with EVF and so on. I will be the first who will buy it then.
There will never be an m-mount anything with autofocus.
Personally, I do a FF rangefinder that’s not 8k and could care less about EVF or autofocus.
Pentax, pease included these features:-
1) compact full frame
2) touch screen to pin point focus points anywhere on the lcd
3) swivel lcd for different angles of shots and to minimize lcd glare
4) competivie price usd 1,500
Hope you are listening, pentax.
Lastly, innovative and practical camera design, please.
And with a viewfinder please. Electronic, optical or hybrid, I don’t care.
A Mark Newson fullframe Pentax is not a dream, its a nightmare. Hope Pentax hires the designer of Olympus OM-D E-M5 for this job.
I just recently tried the old Olympus OM2 and got a dream of a digital full frame Pentax that matches the size, feel and viewfinder of the OM2.
Important: Keep the stabilizer, DNG, K-mount and weather sealing.
Try to make a mechanical lock mirror up mechamism to make it compatible with K-01 lenses that occupies some of the space behind the mount. (Only Live view mode.)
is this http://www.pipedream.com ?. pentax ff!. next rumour will be canon ff mirrorless, with built in moon on a stick.
FF blah blah FF blah blha.
135 FF is dead.
That, until I see a slew of pancake lenses to prove me wrong. 😉
P.S. Considering prices of the most recent CaNikon FFs, I frankly do not think you should expect any miracles guys.
Really, the ideal size would be 3cm x 4.5cm. Digital 135 is becoming as much of a niche market as digital MF, so it makes sense to combine the two formats around a common size. Plus, this size has a crop factor of almost 2 compared to APC-C (in fact, if everyone would just standardize on 15 x 22.5 for APS-C it would be exactly 2.) This would also make it easier for people to point out that an F/1.4 lens on APS-C is really the same as F/2.8 on 3×4.5cm.