My take: They can play all the games they want with sensor size and aspect ratio, but the stumbling block is going to be the lens. There's only so much performance you can get out of a lens that "fits in your pocket," period. They're worried about P&S market saturation and looking for their next major product line.
ISTR reading many years ago that most people who bought a film SLR only bought one lens and never got any more, despite interchangeable lenses being one of the major selling points of SLR's. I think we'll see a repeat of that as dSLR's go consumer. There's no room to carry extra lenses, a speedlight, etc, in your pocket.
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Posts: 167 | Location: Chicago, IL | Registered: 24 January 2008
Sorry. The forum's naughty-word blocker is blocking the name of a famous Japanese company because it contains a four-letter English word for excrement. *shakes head*
If you don't like tinyurls, use the link I originally posted, but substitute the letter s for the first *, the letter h for the second *, the letter i for the third *, and the letter t for the fourth *.
M
Posts: 167 | Location: Chicago, IL | Registered: 24 January 2008
According to dpreview, Micro Four-Thirds eliminates the mirror mechanism, allowing for smaller bodies and lenses. So these techincally won't be SLRs, as the Reuters/Yahoo! article suggests.
There are many pros supplementing their work with point and shoot cameras with far smaller lenses and sensors (the G9 comes to mind). If the new Micro Four Thirds bodies and lenses are as small as they say, these might be a better alternative than such point and shoots.
Posts: 576 | Location: San Francisco | Registered: 18 July 2004
Looks to be much more interesting as a compact. Almost reminds me of those little Voigtl�nder rangefinders. Sure, not so good in low light, but they finally added a hot shoe for bigger flash.
Posts: 978 | Location: Houston & San Diego | Registered: 16 June 2005
Just to give the other end of the spectrum. It is 2:3 aspect ratio, like a really giant 35mm SLR. The 6� pixels is right on the sweet spot of chip development currently.
Posts: 978 | Location: Houston & San Diego | Registered: 16 June 2005
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