Hi All,
This is why the NikCanDak (and FujSig) are all still advancing the "kludges"
for field (especially sports) use. The DSLR marketplace is still in a very
early stage of development. Olympus and others who wish to jump in the 4/3
standard do still have a chance and the end of next year is not really "too
late" at all. There are still a whole bunch of folks who still shoot a whole
bunch of film that have not yet 100 0.000000e+00mbraced digital.
Regrettably, it appears Pentax's system is NOT the same size as the long
awaited OlyDak. Pentax is going for a full APS sized sensor, that's almost
double the surface area of a 4/3" sensor. So, now we have two competing
camps for a "less than full sized" sensor digital SLR. That won't help the
cause for lighter/cheaper at all. :-( Hmm, didn't Minolta have a family of
interchangeable lenses for film APS at one point?
(See dpreview.com -- recently they had a nice article describing sensor
sizes and APS is a lot bigger than the 4/3" proposed for the still mythical
"KodaPus")
Too bad, really. I think it would have been in everybody's interest
(except Canon/Nikon) if the "rest" of the crowd would have rallied around
one competitive, interchangeable lens size/mount for digital. Imagine, if
Olympus, Minolta, Pentax, Fuji etc were all producing a monster family of
interchangeable lenses. The "best of the best" in that market would be
truly awesome. (For whatever the right sensor size is).
As it is, the "not full frame" market will be fragmented and Nikon/Canon
will divide/conquer ... again. All IMHO, of course.
I for one, don't care to lug around the kind of mass that will be a Canon
1Ds kit, even when it becomes reasonably affordable.
Stuart
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