On 9/26/2011 6:49 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
Amusing, but not a bad idea. Reminds me of the Fuji medium format rangefinders.
Great cameras, those.
It would pretty much be a digital view camera. Such a body would be
able to use just about any lens made for any interchangeable lens
camera. There would be space in an adapter for autofocus motors for all
of the 35mm class lenses. If they made a 30 MP, MF version of the K-5
sensor, it would have so much dynamic range, that you could correct for
a few stops of vignetting in software.
From an engineering point of view it's just about feasible enough that
you could probably get more than a few people to believe the rumors.
Remember the octagonal sensor?
Of course, the second version of that camera would be the 645P, which
would have a 6Msite plenoptic sensor.
On Sep 26, 2011, at 9:46 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On 9/26/2011 6:20 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
Hopefully the new mirrorless is APS-C.
So, I was drinking with Ned and John last week, and after the third round of
Islay malt, they let some details slip.
The new mirrorless won't be APS-C, it'll be the 645M. Pentax figures that there
will be too much competition in the market space between APS-C and the Q
sensors, and folks that want a big sensor, want a BIG sensor. The cost of the
medium format sensors is only going to drop with time (as the performance of
the Q sensor improves), so they are going to stake out the Medium Format
Mirrorless market. It'll use the same sensor as the 645D, but will have the
same registration distance as the Q. Adapters will be available to use any
Pentax camera lens. On lenses where the body can read the lens ID, it will
automatically set the crop factor (so an FA lens with a large image circle may
be larger than 24x36) or the image area on the sensor can be manually set.
Most of the electronics and software will be shared with the 645D, and with the
simpler mechanicals, they'll be sell it at $8,000 rather than $10,000.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:19 PM, John Sessoms<[email protected]> wrote:
Shouldn't the rumors start to fly next week?
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