jarski
09-29-2008, 10:32
Dpreview rated Panasonic G1 as this years Photokina #1 product, so got interested of it as well (while not being big fan of 4/3 system).
concept of using smaller than SLR-lens on a thin G1 type of camera, coupled with electronic view finder for the focus it. this brings down the size of whole package, which is what Panasonic has already done with G1 and Micro 4/3.
but Leica or someone else could repeat this with M-system ? ok, rangefinder would be a nice bonus, but it also increases cost, while being non-interesting for most users. and yes, full frame sensor with short distance to lens, that's still to be developed as well. but now there would be bigger motivation for someone to actually do that.
would auto focus ever be doable within boundaries set by M-system, does anybody know ? new camera could never be a hit with only manual focus lenses.
quote: (http://www.dpreview.com/previews/PanasonicG1/) It is perhaps unsurprising then, that the first company to challenge the SLR hegemony is Panasonic, a manufacturer with no legacy film SLR system to support and a share of the digital SLR market so small that it's relatively easy to simply drop it and move on. We strongly suspect that the L10 will be the end of Panasonic's brief foray into the standard Four Thirds System and that - for all the joint development statements - it was Panasonic, not Olympus that was the driving force behind the introduction of Micro Four Thirds.
concept of using smaller than SLR-lens on a thin G1 type of camera, coupled with electronic view finder for the focus it. this brings down the size of whole package, which is what Panasonic has already done with G1 and Micro 4/3.
but Leica or someone else could repeat this with M-system ? ok, rangefinder would be a nice bonus, but it also increases cost, while being non-interesting for most users. and yes, full frame sensor with short distance to lens, that's still to be developed as well. but now there would be bigger motivation for someone to actually do that.
would auto focus ever be doable within boundaries set by M-system, does anybody know ? new camera could never be a hit with only manual focus lenses.
quote: (http://www.dpreview.com/previews/PanasonicG1/) It is perhaps unsurprising then, that the first company to challenge the SLR hegemony is Panasonic, a manufacturer with no legacy film SLR system to support and a share of the digital SLR market so small that it's relatively easy to simply drop it and move on. We strongly suspect that the L10 will be the end of Panasonic's brief foray into the standard Four Thirds System and that - for all the joint development statements - it was Panasonic, not Olympus that was the driving force behind the introduction of Micro Four Thirds.