Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For me it is useless since it has no viewfinder, tried that for a week or two - hated it. Any camera with no viewfinder limits its use to people moving up from a mobile phone or P&S. They may not be disappointed. IMO Frank On 26 May, 2010, at 21:54, Mark Rabiner wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information