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Since it's a battery company, they will probably be powered by eneloop AA cells. Works fine with my Fuji S3 :ROTFL:Not quite! I still have not forgotten how they sneakily disabled 3rd party batteries for G1 via a FW update. Keep changing batteries for every iteration of camera and such. They are quite focused on selling their batteries, for sure.
It will be interesting to see how much a SR1/SR1R battery costs.
I think this is spot on, and you have actually described my personal strategy in this matter.
This makes a lot of sense to me as well, but to use such a filter effectively I think you need to look 5-10 years ahead. Big question for me would be how you do that?
Seriously 5-10 years most manufacturerss operating today will still be around - more importantly is what if any formats they stay in or drop.....I think Leica M Cl/Sl versions will still be around and I think Fuji in APC and super full frame will be too...not as sure abotu Hasselblador even Phase One tbh - I've had my share of disaster in Sinar...never again.
You make a lot of interesting points Peter - probably the most interesting is similar to Jurgen above - my ultimate filter is dividing the cost of something I but for photography by teh number of estimated days I have remaining and seeing if the daily/weekly/monthly yearly cost of carry is something that i peercieve to give me value....I think many of us are on teh same page with this line of thinking...
If thebrumors of Olympus pricing are true AND if the Panasonic/Olympus speculation is true - I wouldn’t be surprised to see Olympus either get absorbed by one of the bigger 3 brands (Canon/Nikon/Sony) or just gonaway altogether. I can see a Sony buying them exclusively for patent ownership but if you recall Olympus was in dire financial turmoil about 5 years ago and that was before all the additional competition. I also agree about Hasselblad and Phase One though I do believe that Phase One partnering with a Sony for a Mirrorless Medium Format system would help (along with substantial price cuts to their hardware) and also focusing more on Capture One becoming a fully featured Software Suite if they worked with a company like Serif to provide a Photoshop alternative bundled with a Capture One. Panasonic is in a series place where maybe they can do a really good thing but most don’t think of cameras (no matter how good they are) when you mention Panasonic.
Sony owns already 20% share of Olympus if my memory is good. So, it is to be excluded that another camera manufacturer take control of this company. On the other hand, in my opinion, it is very propitious that Panasonic buys Leica in the near future. I have been looking at this for a few years now. This would explain why Panasonic is embarking on the manufacture of 24X36 camera, to ensure a future to the lenses of the brand. They will not have to worry about the manufacture of the brand's picture boxes. The lenses already have a very solid reputation.
I don't know that they still own the 20% of Olympus or if that was a cash infusion type deal similar to what the Japanese Government proposed to Fuji to "potentially save" Nikon a couple of years ago. Lots of companies do short-term investments and sell to receive their ROI once in a better place. In either case, Olympus seems like they may be on something of an island right now and not necessarily for the best of reasons.
I think Sony sold most but not all of the Olympus shares. If my memory is correct, they kept around 5%.
Precisely, a marriage is a union where the spouses are one. Could this be a subtle way of setting the stage for what is coming?
The official words from Panasonic were that m43 will stay one of their main interests - besides FF.
Depending on how one likes to read that, this could become true.
I wouldn't compare Panasonic to Kyocera. Kyocera was a ceramics company established in 1959 that bought its way into electronics in 1979 and bought Yashica in 1983 to enter the camera industry. Yashica already had a licensing agreement with Zeiss. It's worth noticing that they closed down their camera production around the same time as Sony, who also had a licensing agreement with Zeiss, entered the DSLR business with the acquisition of Konica Minolta's camera division. My guess is that they didn't find it wortwhile trying to compete with the Sony behemoth in a field where Sony would have much more competence and probably also more money to invest. The Zeiss lenses was the key to success in the camera market for Kyocera, and sharing that key with Sony probably wasn't too attractive and option.
The Contax Yashira lenses are still great though and were the basis for the optical formula used in the Zeiss Master Primes... perhaps the CP.3 cinema lenses are different but the 85/1.4, 100/2, 180/2.8 (along with the 28/2. “Hollywood” and 55/1.2) are truly special lenses.
Japanese companies are best running Japanese Companies- they are not very good at running non Japanese companies - also the day that Leica gets taken over by a Japanese/Chinese or American Company - is the day its premium gets thrown out the window and into the nearest garbage bin.
Not to forget the 1.2/85 for the Contay RTS mount :thumbs:
