Egami (Translation here) spotted a new Ricoh patent describing a 14mm and 19mm f/2.5 lens for the GXR system. Both lenses will be used along an APS-C sensor module.
Both Ricoh and Pentax will announce plenty of mirrorless stuff at Photokina in Spetember. And the good news is that Ricoh is really giving a free way to Pentax engineers. So you don’t have to “fear” a Pentax-Ricoh system fusion.
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No, the 14mm one is for 4/3 size sensor. Both patents are 28mm (35mm equivalent).
Return of the GR1/GR21?
Here’s hoping…
So that’s a new 21mm and 28mm lens module ?
There already is a 18mm or 28mm equivalent 2.5 A12 module, so I highly doubt there’s gonna be a 19mm lens for the GXR 🙂
Did you try to read the article before writing this headline?? It clearly stated that it is 28mm in FF format!!. The 19mm is for APS-C and the 14MM is for the 43 system (not M43). Ricoh is a company that keep their rumors to the minimum and the only time we hear anything from them are news released during a show/exhibition.
I’ve been wanting an APS-C (or FF) GRD for sometime now. Could it be?
a 21mm and a 28mm FOV. shoot . what we need from Ricoh for the GXR is a 24mm equivalent
Harold
Ricoh should push for something like 10/12mm lens (15/18 on FF), preferably with m-mount for A12 module. No AF, just manual distance and aperture.
The 19mm… …it could very well be the successor to the (18mm) A12/28mm module, with the A16 16MP sensor.
Would make perfect sense to upgrade. A 14mm would be the equivalent of 22mm and close to the renowned 21mm.
I think it is pretty exciting stuff since I have the GXR.
I would like to add a GXR II body with tilt LCD, and possibly a sightly more high res viewfinder. And faster frame rate.
Eqami thinks that the new GR Lens is probably for the next generation of GRD (GRD V),
in the original post he says that GXR have a disadvantage of the speed of AF, and he thinks that is the time for GRD(in Japanese : GR????) to make an evolution itself.
So the post here is totally wrong.
I think it’s too early, cycle wise, for a GRD announcement. They have been every two years. GRD4 has been out for just one.
14mm/2,5 with MFT Olympus MD5 sensor in a body of GRD IV! Wow.