Not much point to a micro 4:3 system being a RF camera, if they follow the specification the flange to sensor distance is fixed. The cameras won't be much more compact if they have a large empty mirror box. If they depart from the standard then the cameras won't be part of 4:3 system and it's just a marketing concept. There are enough of those already, and sometimes they really don't fool any at all.
Anthony Farr wrote: > Choice is good. More choice is better. My early years in photography were > a time of many brands and many technical approaches. Recent years have seen > a narrowing of these choices and I applaud any manufacturer who gives us > variety. Foveon should be a choice that we can widely use, but a single > brand stranglehold is killing it. > > This micro 4/3 concept could or should be the new interchangeable lens > rangefinder. I'd look forward to some fast wide lenses, and some superfast > standards. Lens speed for stills cameras has been stalled for decades, > AFAIK Canon's 50(ish)/0.95 from the sixties is still the speed king. 4/3 > mount SLRs require retrofocus design for their standard 25mm lenses which > makes superfast lenses either too difficult or too pricey, but with a > shorter register (I presume) the way would be open for this category to > return. Yippee. > > Regards, Anthony Farr > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Timber >> Sent: Wednesday, 6 August 2008 5:32 AM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: OT: New Olympus Micro Four Thirds announcement >> >> Probably most of you heard about the new Micro Four Thirds system. Long >> story short: Oly/Pana is working on an interchangeable compact camera :D >> >> I believe this will bring a 'revolution' to low-price segment of >> photography by creating a new 'category', the interchangeable compacts >> (kicking bridge category in the rear) or it will fail and will be just a >> bad experiment. >> >> What do you think? Will it influence the DSLR market anyhow? >> >> .t >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> > follow > >> the directions. >> > > > -- You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. --Al Capone. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
