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Excellent! Sony needs competition so that its users can benefit! :thumbs:
In my view, with the K-01, Pentax snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by saddling a great concept with a flawed design. I don't believe the camera was too large necessarily but it ended up being an unwieldy f-ugly toytown brick!F-mount will most probably be with an adapter, like for the "1" system. Allowing for F-mount lenses without adapter would make the camera unnecessary large because of the long distance from the lens flange to the sensor. Pentax tried that with K-01. Not a big success, I think.
(...) F-mount will most probably be with an adapter, like for the "1" system. Allowing for F-mount lenses without adapter would make the camera unnecessary large because of the long distance from the lens flange to the sensor. (...)
Steen,
Besides I have seen, and especially read, so many times that a short flange-to-sensor distance introduces all kinds of problems with steep ray angles, smeared corners and color shading issues.
And when you try to solve those issues with offset microlenses on the sensor, then the sensor no longer works quite as well with classic lenses made for a camera with a longer flange-to-sensor distance.
So I for one do not hope for such an adapter mess caused by a new mount with shorter flange-to-sensor distance.
We'll see.
Just my personal 0.02 of course.
Steen,
What happens with the Nikon V1 and its very short registry? You can still mount your Nikon F lenses and get decent pictures can't you?
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And those "system" lenses (whatever they are called) are pretty small. Granted it is a tiny sensor but there are no offset microlenses in Sony cams or Samsung cams or EOS M.
I agree, and the perfect solution to this would be telecentric lenses, which was one of the reasons the lenses for the 4/3 DSLRs were so good and so evenly sharp from corner to corner. But telecentric lenses for FX would be huge, so it's not an alternative that a sane camera manufacturer would go for.
Besides I have seen, and especially read, so many times that a short flange-to-sensor distance introduces all kinds of problems with steep ray angles, smeared corners and color shading issues.
And when you try to solve those issues with offset microlenses on the sensor, then the sensor no longer works quite as well with classic lenses made for a camera with a longer flange-to-sensor distance.
So I for one do not hope for such an adapter mess caused by a new mount with shorter flange-to-sensor distance.
We'll see.
Just my personal 0.02 of course.