Triple rumor to report today! Here they are:
1) The GX7 will be announced tomorrow and all the specs are already well known
2) A new Panasonic “Leica” branded lens will come within the year
3) The first NEX-FF lens will be the Zeiss 35mm f/2.8.
A bit weird to see Panasonic announce a camera on August 1!!!
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“A bit weird to see Panasonic announce a camera on August 1!!!”
Not really , August 1st. Is April Fool’s Day in Japan.
Maybe they figure that this time, if they announce by Aug. 1, they might actually be able to ship by Christmas. (Yes, I’m a scarred veteran of the GH2 delivery-date debacle.)
f/2.8? What’s the point of a prime lens? That sort of aperture should be covered on a zoom.
The price will be more affordable and size/weight will be smaller.
Yeah, that doesn’t differentiate it from the RX1 at all.
Shouldn’t they went for some other FL instead?
I keep reading that the GX7 can do 40fps… Impressive but why is the video mode 1080p@60fps? Why not go 24fps RAW or cinemadng it can obviously pull it off, that’s weird, it would own big time, they would not only keep their video lead but would make a huge market impact in several fields.
The Fuji X concept is for me far superior to Sony FF, size, esp. size of the lenses? Apetrure of the lenses, 35mm 2.8 compared to 23mm (35mm FF) 1.4? Price?
And picture quality will be pretty on par.
But it’s good that somebody finally starts to offer a mirrorless FF camera. And the RX1 is a nice camera, but price should be max EUR 500 above the APS-C cameras Fuji X100s, Nikon and Ricoh.
But full frame is better because it’s, um, FULLER. It’s full of fullness, for fully full fulfillment. Everybody knows that in the second chapter of the Book of Genesis, God said “Let there be fullness and its size shall be 36 millimeters by 24 millimeters, and let no other size be called full.”
The picture quality between X-trans and a FF NEX will not really be on par, although I do agree that, if the NEX lens is only f2.8, it’ll negate much of the advantage of the larger sensor, in terms of “look.” I have an X100s and RX1 sitting right in front of me, and the RX1 is leagues better in terms of detail, and a bit better in lowlight (Fuji overstates their ISO values.) Plus, the X-trans sensor still has all kinds of demoisacing issues.
The problem with a FF camera with the e-mount is that the mount is small and close to the sensor, which will require Sony to make lenses that are pretty long. Size is probably a main factor in making the 35mm lens f2.8.
Well, we are talking about a single lens right now. Maybe there’s a lot more to come in the future. Maybe faster. With FF NEX, you can adapt almost every lens and get a fullframe feel, something the X series does not have, yet.
Wrong!!!!!
The rx1 already beats the x100s down
F2.8 is to old school for a lens imo.
On the bright side it most likely means it will be a pancake.
Hopefully edge to edge sharp one.
I would also wish that with this new format Sony releases an advanced RAW form capable of remembering output settings if you wish.so that we can benefit from all the instant options without loosing time on often tedious an repetitive PP workflows, but still have option to tweak it as any raw
It almost certainly won’t be a pancake. I bet it’ll be about the size of the 35mm f/2 lens that’s on the RX1.
The FF NEX will be at least $3000, and in rip off Britain the same in £’s making it considerably dearer. That said, if it has the spec of an RX1, but with an optical viewfinder it will be amazing .
Have you ever tried che Zeiss ZM C-Biogon 35mm f/2.8 on a FF Leica M? It’s nothing short of spectacular, better than the ZM 35mm f/2 and than the Leica Summicron 35mm f/2.