Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: michaelbiondo on October 28, 2014, 08:11:13 am
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This rumor has me interested, especially if one could pop it on to the back something like the cambo actus.
Has any one have any additional info?
http://photorumors.com/2014/10/24/more-details-on-the-rumored-sonyzeiss-and-mamiya-medium-format-digital-rangefinder-cameras/
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This is the first I've heard of such a rumor. That would be a nice camera for traveling (relatively) light. I hope it's kept simple, a menu similar to the Leica M9. I'd like to see some manner os adding of removing features (capabilities). Example: I don't need video - others surely will.
I loved the Mamiya 6 and would enjoy medium format in that size. But then, should such cameras really be marketed, price will probably have a major impact on how well they sell. Pentax's MF will probably be a benchmark, despite the camera type differences.
How about a MF Fujifilm similar to the X-Pro1. Even a MF with fixed lens would be interesting - like a larger X100.
And I hope they keep "X" out of the name.
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These rumours have been around for a while, and are completely delicious. They are also of somewhat low probability, and I say that as someone who has never found I camera I loved in the digital era the way the Mamiya 6 and Fuji 690s held my heart.
To be meaningfully useful, these cameras will also have to be EVF-based, as you just won't get sufficient focus accuracy on a traditional RF to make use of the ultra high-res.
But who knows, maybe there's a miracle in the offing. Personally, I think a 46-54MP 35mm Sony-cam is what's in the offing. A9r or something like that.
- N.
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These rumours have been around for a while, and are completely delicious. They are also of somewhat low probability, and I say that as someone who has never found I camera I loved in the digital era the way the Mamiya 6 and Fuji 690s held my heart.
To be meaningfully useful, these cameras will also have to be EVF-based, as you just won't get sufficient focus accuracy on a traditional RF to make use of the ultra high-res.
But who knows, maybe there's a miracle in the offing. Personally, I think a 46-54MP 35mm Sony-cam is what's in the offing. A9r or something like that.
- N.
My evaluation is that something is coming. The japanese have always loved MF folders and rangefinders in their domestic market.
Edmund
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They might use the same trick as in the Panasonic LX100 to get multiple aspects and in particular superwide images out of a fairly compact construction *without* full crop-MF coverage, yielding a smallish camera that is an MF hybrid in a way. I haven't worked it out, but I think a standard 35mm lens might suffice. Maybe Leica will make a super-M too.
Edmund
(http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Panasonic_Lumix_LX100/images/LX100-Multiple-Aspect-Ratio_16-9.jpg)
Image above linked from cameralabs review of LX100 (http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Panasonic_Lumix_LX100/) (fair use, technical explanatory material).
Edmund