Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]http://a.img-dpreview.com/news/1005/sonysensor/sensor_compare.jpg Double layer in effect couplets instead of in effect single lens eyewear in front of each pixel site makes for Sony being able to make the smallest pixel sights yet and still do well with image quality. The way it looks.... Meanwhile it doest waste its time in sub miniature digital formats but comes out with its tiny NEX cameras with 1.5 crop like the Leica X1 instead of the dumb 2x crop cameras which capture the hearts and minds of the bulk of the LUG. It's very cool and cute and flat 16mm pancake 2.8 becomes a very capable 24mm lens for these NEX cameras. My advanced math skills tells me that lens would be a 32mm if they were talking about the crazy useless 2x crop cameras. That said they could apply this two layer technology to these smaller formats and perhaps do ok. Next year. Nobody knows anything about it yet. But in Pict form it looks good so far. I'm very big on Sony. The 16mm pancake looks great but this NEX series is being mainly presented with larger front heavy looking zoom glass in front and with much talk about its video capabilities to justify it. Very smart marketing and camera design as far as I go. Real stocking stuffers . I'm ready for one. http://www.dpreview.com/previews/sonynex5/ Mirrorless like the Leica Dlux series and the bulk of the cameras being used today which are not DSLR's. Though there is cross over. We need such an option with M mount And give me two layers in front of my sensor to make it quite able to deal with non retrofocal glass designs. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner