What confuses me is that they stay at 50MP, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but it may be that they intend it as a low end system for low light shooting. Hopefully it won't have crop factor.
If I were them I would try to avoid a 1:1 comparison with their existing offering.
50mp has the following advantages:
- Since the positioning seems to be focusing on action shooting with MF (high ISO, "high" frame rate), it makes sense to keep the resolution low enough so as to maximize the high ISO quality and avoid that the shortcomings of AF show too much,
- It is more than 36,
- It is less than 60/80 (although so little less than it makes no practical difference whatsoever in most applications),
- It enables a slightly cheaper positioning, inline with the message that CMOS is lower end... that message probably remains important to keep the DSLR hordes away from the shores,
- It enables them not to take too much risk since they know that many of their customers only buy their backs with the highest possible resolution. Why spend nearly as much money without the bragging rights?
I wonder about live view in camera...
Their strategist must have many more white hair now than a year ago!
Cheers,
Bernard