These manufacturers are crazy if they think an entirely new lens mount is going to survive, especially when paired with something as low-end as "electronic viewfinders."
You can understand Pan/Oly with micro 4/3 since their 4/3 effort isn't exactly booming. They need to create a niche they can be successful in. And Samsung isn't winning the market with their "rebranded Pentax" dslrs.
I doubt that many other actors will go after this marked unless it really take a bite out of the compact or dslr marked. That it will take bites out of the advanced compact / bridge camera -marked is easy to see.
That's exactly what 4/3 is all about, and it's not exactly a widely popular system.
The biggest problem is that these sensors aren't cheap enough or high-quality enough to justify the niche market. Cramming 14mp on an APS-C-sized sensor means nothing unless you can adequately control the resulting excessive noise, or if the sensor is cheap enough to compete with "high-end" point-and-shoot cameras. And introducing a new proprietary mount/system won't help bring prices down either, at least not in the short term.
I don't think they need to make a new lens mount for interchangeable lenses in this category. But other than that, I think this could be a great thing depending on implementation.
We all understand that you won't be able to cram all the superior attributes of a large DSLR into a compact camera. But it's a good start to just try to implement an APS-C sized sensor into a more compact camera system. For god sakes, they have to start somewhere in order to get to the future of higher quality, large sensor compact cameras. I do think it's probably a better idea at least at first to focus on a fixed lens design where they can maximize the speed and quality of the autofocus, metering, and EVF and minimize size and cost. It would be awesome in the future to be able to have a large full-frame DSLR and a much smaller, lighter compact with a APS-C sensor.
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These manufacturers are crazy if they think an entirely new lens mount is going to survive, especially when paired with something as low-end as "electronic viewfinders."
This isn't aimed for the professionals, it's for the people who want compact cameras with changeable lenses.
By eliminating the mirror, less money to make the cameras...
And since those people don't often have DSLRs, they don't have optics, so they don't care about the new mount.
You can understand Pan/Oly with micro 4/3 since their 4/3 effort isn't exactly booming. They need to create a niche they can be successful in. And Samsung isn't winning the market with their "rebranded Pentax" dslrs.
I doubt that many other actors will go after this marked unless it really take a bite out of the compact or dslr marked. That it will take bites out of the advanced compact / bridge camera -marked is easy to see.
@avestar
That's exactly what 4/3 is all about, and it's not exactly a widely popular system.
The biggest problem is that these sensors aren't cheap enough or high-quality enough to justify the niche market. Cramming 14mp on an APS-C-sized sensor means nothing unless you can adequately control the resulting excessive noise, or if the sensor is cheap enough to compete with "high-end" point-and-shoot cameras. And introducing a new proprietary mount/system won't help bring prices down either, at least not in the short term.
I don't think they need to make a new lens mount for interchangeable lenses in this category. But other than that, I think this could be a great thing depending on implementation.
We all understand that you won't be able to cram all the superior attributes of a large DSLR into a compact camera. But it's a good start to just try to implement an APS-C sized sensor into a more compact camera system. For god sakes, they have to start somewhere in order to get to the future of higher quality, large sensor compact cameras. I do think it's probably a better idea at least at first to focus on a fixed lens design where they can maximize the speed and quality of the autofocus, metering, and EVF and minimize size and cost.
It would be awesome in the future to be able to have a large full-frame DSLR and a much smaller, lighter compact with a APS-C sensor.