Via: http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/the-rumor-counterattack-from-fuji-full-frame-x200-coming-in-2014/
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Saturday, October 19, 2013
The Pentax L43 Special (L39-mount) Put onto the A7
Via: http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/the-rumor-counterattack-from-fuji-full-frame-x200-coming-in-2014/
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Ying · 598 weeks ago
anunnaki · 598 weeks ago
Alex · 598 weeks ago
Except it might not work that well ;) http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_onli...
rhermans · 598 weeks ago
I tried all my pentax lenses on my fuji x-e1 and didn't notice any problems.
Also with an adapter. Still I stopped thinking about ff - switched to fuji for it's quality in a smaller package, something a lot of Full framers might do to.
Blowfly · 598 weeks ago
Mistral75 · 598 weeks ago
It has a LTM (Leica Thread Mount) / L39 mount, i.e. the short-registered thread mount of Leica rangefinder cameras prior to the Leica M bayonet mount.
Blowfly · 598 weeks ago
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Sony camera do mundo · 598 weeks ago
me2 · 598 weeks ago
A7's physical dimensions 127 x 94 x 48 mm
K1000 physical dimensions 143 x 91.5 x 49 mm
MX physical dimensions 136 x 82.5 x 49.5 mm
ME Super physical dimensions 131.5 x 82.5 x 49.5 mm
LX physical dimensions 144.5 x 85 x 50 mm
Anonimity is Great · 598 weeks ago
Pentax should just re-use the K-x body, remove the mirror assembly, replace the OVF with EVF, and of course put an FF sensor in there. That'd be a very, very nice camera.
Dan Johnson · 598 weeks ago
Heiko · 598 weeks ago
The things you consider worthy of "future-proofness" would require a different approach to designing and manufacturing. The way it works now is: every bump in sensor resolution and or per-pixel-fidelity requires a tailored read-out and "processing engine". The "cpu" of the camera is also a highly "optimized" (for image- read-out and processing) box that pretty much needs to be upgraded, once it is too slow to handle all the data at required speed. So what's sufficient to drive todays low-resolution (and I regard everything lower as 1920x1280 pixel as "low" when it comes to electronic viewfinders on a 2:3 aspect ratio camera) will most-llikely fail at delivering a picture on a higher-resolution one (if it is at all adaptable to its data-interface). In other words: You would have to put into the device a computing core that is over-capable of what it needs to do right now.
Or even if the resolution (as is a fair guess by now) will consolidate per-sensor-format in the near-byfuture with only display-technology (how the colours and shades are physically produced) to be left to advance: you would have to make sure that the camera provides the right electronic and electric environment for such changing pieces of equipment: voltages, data-protocols, EMV stuff, etc...
So that's why I say, as based on how things appear to work out in the consumer electronics market today: I say it is still impossible to do. Maybe when such things mature in another 10..20 years this way of doing things will have been replaced by a much, much more "organic" and natural aproach. Until then - I believe we will have to make do with what we have. In analogy to cameras (which are just as much computers as of today as they are physical tools): The way our market works might just be the cause why free-software as in" free as in thinking" does now drive the majority of our world wide web, serving us in the background - whereas in most consumers' hands we still find closed-source proprietary boxes running software-systems under the exclusive influence of a select few international for-profit companies.
As for Photokina 2014 in laymen's terms: Yes mirrorless with 24x36mm sensors might just be the next "big thing" and the new Sony just the first fresh breath of a storm to come. But does that change the fact that I can capture images, today, with a "cropped"-sensor dslr that are perceivably as good as what could be achieved with 135-film or better?
As I didn't have a large investment in glass in the pre-digital era and came to Pentax because of the then affordable APS-C system (and the fact that Pentax made it a whole system around those then still pricey but affordable small sensors) I say:
I won't wait for "full frame" (especially not mirrorless)
I'll wait for a successor to the mamiya 6 and 7 - Now THAT would be a worthy sensor size to do away with a mirror. For serious landscape and architectural photo-work. For action and general photography I don't see any significant advantage going mirrorless-only. But I do see what I have to compromise:
Speed for one.
Battery life is next-in-line: a mechanical mirror does not need any power when resting stationary. "Mirrorless"-cameras do!
The other thing bugging me is the simple fact that we are talking about "future evc-desings" - > meaning today's EVFs just don't cut it - and by a long shot. I absolutely won't invest in half-baked ideas. To those who do: you probably know what you have to expect.
Dan Johnson · 598 weeks ago
Heiko · 597 weeks ago
You are right, on both accounts. Stupid fact remains: WE as consumers (unfortunately) are unable to take apart our cameras and just exchange parts on the inside as we see them fit. If we could I would take the new K-3, rip everything out and put into the K-5's body -- simply because I don't like where "they" selfishly re-located the AF-thumb-button. That's about it.
I'm glad that Pentax continues to take their APS-C customers seriously! That was one major reason for me to go Pentax in the first place. Wish they have got that new camera model 'right' as to give them (Ricoh-Pentax) a little time to reconsider updating that lens-lineup. I think I could use a 50-135/2.8 but am unsure If I want it with a possible re-design on the horizon (no, I don't know any rumours, just see it would fit in with the re-coating of the limiteds).
Oh, yes: flash-sync is still not that great -> I know, slr-technology and cmos-sensors still have their limitations.
However: mirrorless still does not make too much sense in my eyes in a sports/action oriented camera. And even the short flange distances takes its toll on digital... ...where SLRs naturally don't have this problem as such.
I follow your judgement: pure marketing hype. Playing with peoples ideas in their heads, of course - Sony will gladly take your money first, just so you find out about all that in the field later.
Mistral75 · 598 weeks ago
Mistral75 · 598 weeks ago