On Sep 10, 2012, at 10:05 AM, William Robb wrote: > On 10/09/2012 9:54 AM, Miserere wrote: >> Errrr, guys? Why aren't we discussing this milestone? > > Because it is of no interest? > A 24mp P&S camera may be a milestone for P&S cameras, but it's still a P&S.
It seems that such a form factor has the advantage of being able to optimize the whole system to work at the very best performance possible. The lens only has to work with one sensor, the sensor with only one lens, you can place every lens element exactly where it needs to be, without any compromise for registration distance. There is no chance of the mount getting loose. There is no mirror slap to blur the image. There is much less chance of getting dust in the system. For that matter it would be much simpler to design very effective weather sealing. Plus, with this one, if you want the field of view of a 50mm lens, just crop it down to APS and you still have 12MP to work with. If I were told to engineer the very best performance, using today's technology, at a particular focal length, I'd develop something that was technically a "Point and shoot", though probably a lot more like rangefinder.. Somehow though, I doubt that Sony actually did engineer the very best possible performance in this form factor. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
