Following up on a
picture from a week ago, Mirrorless Rumors
reports that Samsung is developing a "medium format" mirrorless camera with a square sensor costing less than 645D:
1) The camera uses a 36mm x 36mm square sensor!
2) Samsung developed three different sensors. One 18 Megapixel sensor and two different 34 Megapixel sensors.
3) The lens you can see on the picture is a manual focusing 24mm lens.
4) It has a shorter lens-sensor distance than other medium format cameras (Editor’s note: Probably because it’s mirrorless)
5) On the road… AF lenses, EVF and optional accessories like grip, flash and screen.
6) The development is under phase two (That means Protocol, Viability and Marketing). Phase three is when the final decision will be taken.
It's a rumor, but the site has a pretty good track record.
Square is my favorite
film/sensor aspect ratio, but I'm in a small minority with that. But a 36x36mm square sensor doesn't really make sense to me: it equals full frame when cropped to the same aspect ratio along with an MP drop, and probably requires new lenses.
Not sure who's calling it MF, perhaps the same marketing people who came up with the world's first full frame camera...