Le 17 août 12 à 21:07, Moose a écrit :
> On 8/17/2012 9:54 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>> Olympus working on new body for top-pro lenses
>> Yawn. Just deliver it. While you're at it, bright out that 100mm that
>> was promised from the beginning. My expectations are pretty low.
>
> Not interested in buying into 4/3, but I am interested to see what
> they are doing.
>
> Is it possible that Moose hit it on the head about the need to move
> already built lenses?
>
> Referring back to his lectures on the economics of manufacturing,
> the R&D for the E-5 and for the sensor system in the
> E-M5 are already spent and allocated. If the tooling for the E-5 is
> still in place or storage, making a slightly updated
> E-5 body with the serious new sensor system could be quite low
> investment.
Are we sure the sensors can be interchanged? I'd have thought the
angles at which light hits the surface must be different. I'm just
wondering if, here.
>
> It would be interesting to see a new pro body from the ground up, I
> suppose. But my imagination doesn't see what there
> is to improve on most aspects of the E-5 other than the inadequate
> sensor system.
Well, didn't Dawid prove the truth is rather different yesterday?
Depends on what and how you shoot.
But who am I to ...
Philippe
> (If you have an E-5, and love the
> sensor system and IQ, I'm not talking about you, but about the pros
> and serious amateurs who stayed away in droves.)
>
> Unless they can put it on a serious diet. I know, I know, SERIOUS
> cameras, the ones PROs use, are big and heavy. Yes,
> that has been true for a long, long time, like since the beginning.
> But will it hold, in the face of recent developments?
The M's have never been bulky for all I know - it was even the main
reason for their past success - how many pros used them or their
Japanese copies?
And some are now adding an M8/9 into the backpack.
>
> And how true will it be in the near future of the portions of the
> pro and serious amateur market that a new, high end
> 4/3 body might have a chance with?
NONE: the limitation is NOISE at high ISO, then you face problems when
shooting action, sports, wildlife, etc.
> I doubt most pros LIKE hauling around a bunch of big, heavy
> equipment. They have done so for the simple reason that
> that's what has delivered quality images and physical reliability.
> We've already seen the shift when the 5D (and the
> later Nikon equivalent) appeared.
>
Weight means mass, hence low speed capabilities, am I right?
IOS's work fine, but if you start with a camera that is more shake
resistant than another then IOS is even better.
> All will be revealed ...
>
Hopefully :-)
Amitiés
Philippe
> Speculative Moose
>
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