Comments on: (FT4) Pentax will not join m43 (and leaks the ugliest mirrorless camera ever made)

By: DemonDuck

DemonDuck — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:10:16 +0000

Why have you all made the M4/3 a religious battle? If a camera maker decides to make a mirrorless camera with a sensor that is bigger than M4/3 — you guys get all — “…come on get with it…” like the M4/3 was handed down from some cosmic sensor god.

In fact, the easiest and best way for a particular manufacturer like Canon, Pentax, Nikon to make a mirrorless camera would be to make a mirrorless camera with the same flange back distance and same sensor size as it’s DSLR’s. That way existing lenses could be used saving the photographer BIG BUCKS!

I mean, look at the cost of M4/3 lenses!!!

This enchantment with M4/3 is stupid and dogmatic and unthinking.

By: bidou

bidou — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:56:54 +0000

Maybe this camera is ugly, but at least it comes with more dial GF2/NEX-5.

By: tttulio

tttulio — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:24:51 +0000

Agree 100%. Its a ghetto bling camera. ahh the time when cameras were designed by engineers to be functional…

By: Esa Tuunanen

Esa Tuunanen — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:14:58 +0000

There haven’t been any quantum leaps in these microscopic sensors, only quantum leaps have been in introducing extremely strong NR algorithms which are used to considerable degree even at lowest sensitivities.

And with this amount of marketing pixels in microscopic sensor diffraction starts stepping into action at around f2.5
2/3″ sensor would have been lot better compromise.

By: tmrgrs

tmrgrs — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:31:13 +0000

I don’t agree with admin about the “ugly appeance”. The color in the sample photo isn’t very attractive but we all know that Pentax and several other companies are in the habit of offering several choices for camera body color these days.. . . As for whether I’d be interestd in getting one, I’m not sure yet. I’m committed to m4/3 as a system but if the NC-1 does well in the reviews and if the price is reasonable ($400?), I might be interested in trying one and more importantly, recommending it to others who want compactness in an ILC system without having to use large lenses to get a telephoto capability or low light capability with fast opyics. There is an appeal for some of us in the idea of having a XZ-1 or S95 type camera that can offer the flexibilty of an ILC system. We’ll know more about this trend to ILC miniaturization when we see what Nikon is going to offer with their upcoming 2.5x ILC. Too many of you here are being dismissive IMO. You guys will always be able to get what you want in the end but others might want something else.