Mirrorlessrumors had the pleasure to meet the famous hacker Vitaly Kiselev. Vitaly is famous because he hacked the GH1 and GF1 cameras and maybe he will soon do the same with NEX cameras 🙂
Here are some interesting pieces of the interview:
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MR: Do you think mirrorless cameras are more suitable for video than DSLR’s? Or do we still need that “bulky” optical viewfinder?
VK: We’ll see. Sony is the key player here, not Nikon or Canon. And EVF will win, of course. The Sony A55 could be a real hit. But we need to know about encoder, audio and EVF use.
MR: Are you “excited” about the new camera announcements? What do you expect from the camera makers?
VK: This year we’ll see a major camera market shakeup. As for excitement, no. It is just interesting to see smart people making good products. And I see almost no bad products in VDSLR camera market.
MR: Why shakeup? What’s coming?
VK: Sony is coming. It will supply sensors to Pentax and Nikon.Plus its logistic is much better in Japan, Asia, Russia, and maybe Europe. In Russia for each 10 Sony cameras you can find 2 Canon and 1 Nikon, and 1 Samsung. I think they’ll surprise Canon as the leader in VDSLR segment in a year. This is my prediction. 7D
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Read the whole interview here: http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/an-interview-with-vitaly-kiselev-the-gh1gf1-hacker/
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My feeling is that a good 90% of EVIL camera users would want fully compatible, electronic mount adapters for Canon, Nikon, and Sony lenses. My guess as to why nobody’s done it, is licensing issues.
Interesting Stuff.
I’ve longed for a Custom Firmware Guru in the Sony world. Great to see they are producing equipment which is catching the eye of people who are caperble of such a feat.
I hope the guy is right.
Much depends on this if Sony gonna develop lenses with smooth aperture control from the body and noiseless AF at the time. Also various accessories will matter cause now eg. for 7D there are tons of these available.
We still didn’t see answer from Canon. It should make their own sensors. Nikon and Pentax obviously will go with Sony sensors and do the same contrast AF in video. Interestingly, Sony delayed sensor availability to Nikon, to get time for increase of their own market share?
A33/A55 is a different story, fully new and patented concept and any of CaNikon couldn’t redo it. May be after 2-3 years with phase detection on sensors (half pixel AF). In addition, if EVF is really good, A77 would be really 7D killer. Sony should just put A55 hardware in A700 body, ok, may be add more powerful processor and RAM.
My thoughts exactly LEdgars. 🙂
BTW: Nikon has it’s own patent on translucent DSLR. Though it does not involve moving mirror AFAIK. And I doubt we’ll see such camera any time soon.
@Revenge: Indeed it has been done before, through reverse-engineering (as far I know), but the adapter is REALLY not cheap (I didn´t want to say EXPENSIVE ^^).
Let me see if I find the link, I´ve bookmarked it a while ago…
(It was an adapter for the RED-Camera to use the Canon EF-Mount, with full control of AF, aperture and so on. It was really amazing as you could “save” the focusing distance and programm that adapter to focus slowly or fast to that distance)
Wait a min… (or hours, it depends if I can do it before I leave to the city ;-D )
I have it! 😀
http://indie4k.com/archives/69
http://www.birger.com/
(Play the video down the page)… ^^
Greets,
Erwin
I think there is only a matter of maybe 4 years until Sony is bigger than Canikon, not just in mirrorless, they are known for it in other areas, it’s typical Sony, they have the resources and skills to make it happen. People just have to be a little patient, and accept that these Sony workers have a lot more knowledge than us.
Wow the Sony camp really does sway from Doom and Gloom to Positivity in a split second 🙂
I’m curious about the A55 and its Size, really interested to see some reviews on it. If it has the NEX quality and A700 AF performance with 1080 video, I can’t see it can be faulted.
Unless we get a Hello-Kitty UI.
I agree with Kiselev – adaptors and real fast lenses, we dont need hq for 2k resolution:]
Another interesting thing is that Nikon and Sony goes together so we can expect strike against Canon – and lol its about time.
To make adaptors for NEX is relatively simple. There is 20-30mm of additional space. To make Canon or Nikon lenses adaptor to A-mount I suppose is superexpesnive, rather could be service which change mount and also chip of each lens. But it is change of religion which is rarely possible.
I think Sony working on new D-SLR users. Therefore is NEX (with dummies GUI), AXX and A5XX.
hahahaha Sony will rule the camera world less than a year?
what !!!! you must be dreaming. don’t make me laugh man.
they never will!
Well, yea, a year is impossible unless world would turn up side down.
But who knows – maybe in 10 years or so? Canon would go away to 2nd or 3rd grade player, focused mostly on high-end pro cameras while Sony will occupy the rest of market, perhaps along with some other company (Nikon will survive as a zero-noise company?).
I wouldn’t judge so soon whatever Sony will or will not rule the camera world. They just started the adventure with DSLRs yet did more what Pentax & Olympus done through their whole career, joint together. In some parts of the world Sony supremacy is immerse comparing to the rest (ie. Russia). US though is ATM the biggest market with ultimate Canon + Nikon supremacy, so it will take years till the global market share gonna change significantly.
I don’t see it. Hollywood has already adopted Canon and invested a ton of money in both Canon compatible lenses as well as PL conversions. Sony’s only chance is to make their cameras compatible with Canon lenses, otherwise they’re not going to get people to switch.
Perhaps, Dave N, you have never heard of Sony Pictures–which is Columbia Pictures, MGM, etc.? Sony IS a large part of “Hollywood.”
Or do you really mean indie film makers? The latter will soon have strong choices other than the Canon dslrs.
Competition in the market is good for customers. So, I hope Canon, Nikon, Sony, and the rest continue to do well. I hope no single camera manufacturer completely dominates, as it may lead that manufacturer to lessen their efforts or charge overly high prices.
They have a good chance of eating in to Nikon’s and Canon’s entry level and enthusiast market but they haven’t got a hope in the world of getting to Nikon and Canon in the professional market anytime soon.
If Sony continues to produce products such as the A33/55 A560/580 and prices them under Nikon’s and Canon’s offerings I have no doubt they can be number one.