On 7/12/2011 8:00 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Jul 12, 2011, at 9:42 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
The only problem with the M mount module, is that it breaks the whole concept
behind the system. Matching the sensor to the lens. The M module is going to
have an APS-C sized sensor, for lenses designed for 24x36mm film frames.
However forgetting about the original concept, which never made a lot of sense
to me, except maybe from a marketing standpoint. The argument that you had to
have a lens matched to a digital sensor doesn't hold up. A good lens is a good
lens, a bad lens is a bad lens, sometimes a not great lens designed for 35mm
film gives better results on an APS-C digital sensor.
My feeling on that is that I love my FA77, and am very glad that I don't have
to still use it with my K100 sensor. I don't think that sensor technology is
mature enough that any sensor won't be obsolete in a few years. If you can pay
a few bucks to upgrade a sensor in a camera unit, then I'd be more interested.
I wonder what percentage of the price of the K-5 is directly related to the electronics
that you'd buy with each "camera unit"?
Frankly, I'd be more interested in interchangable sensors. I'd love a super high
sensitivity, high resolution B&W sensor, an infrared sensor, maybe even a very
tiny pixel pitch, M4/3 sized sensor to make my telephotos seem that much longer.
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Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
Most Medium Format systems work exactly that way. Lens, Sensor Unit,
Camera Body, are all separate. You mix and match what you need.
However if the same economics control aps-c/24/36mm systems as seem to
hold in the medium format world. It really doesn't make any sense to
separate the sensor from the camera body. The 645D sells for
considerably less than any other system's digital back. Heck, even a
Leica S1 body costs less than most digital backs for other camera
systems, and as you may have noticed it says Leica on it.
I used to think that digital backs should be separate so that the sensor
could be upgraded without replacing the rest of the camera, but based on
the economics of the medium format market, it doesn't seem to make any
economic sense.to just replace the sensor sub systems. The only thing I
wish would be that the user interface wouldn't change radically from one
model to the next.
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