http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/ Engadget Comments for Ricoh GXR camera system swaps out the sensor along with the lens http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 9th 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 10th 2009 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/
Well.. Until they stop making 35mm film that is. ]]>Nov 10th 2009 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/
Try doing what a d3s does on any film....find me colour 12,000+ asa
film for a start never mind film over 1600 thats clean. The time is
coming where most people that arent tech hungry geeks or top of the
line competitive photographers can be happy with their cameras now
until they break, a d3/s/x, m9 or 1d mk3/4 is a camera i would need
nor want to replace until it died.......even then if i could fix or
replace parts then i would do that.

these cameras perform better than any film can and dont give me this
32mp bullshit i scan film and there is a difference between usable
mp/resolution and scannable resolution.

having to resize a 32 mp image down to a 1-2mp just to have it look
as sharp or as clean as a digi at 5mp is stupid and pointless.

Saying that i love film and still shoot my m3 way to much to even
think about not ever using it and when film dies...which it will it
will be a sad day for all. Especially all those straight to digital
photographers who will never learn what real photography is :(]]>Nov 10th 2009 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 9th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 9th 2009 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/
i think noone has been stupid enough to say that yet because it makes no difference to the photos it takes. ]]>Nov 10th 2009 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/
Why not just have bodies, sensors, AND lenses inter-replaceable? This system seems more limiting than what we've already got...]]>Nov 9th 2009 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 9th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/
So you can either upgrade sensors all the time, keeping the camera hobbling along... or you can outright replace the body and do a full, 100% upgrade, less often.

Not to mention glass lasts forever - if the sensors and lenses aren't separable this would be the dumbest thing ever. I'm shooting with 30 year-old lenses for crying out loud, and they work just as well as the day they left the factory - and optically they're as good as anything built today.]]>Nov 10th 2009 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 9th 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 9th 2009 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 10th 2009 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 9th 2009 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 9th 2009 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 9th 2009 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 9th 2009 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/
$1700 sounds steep when you're talking about being locked into a 50mm Macro, but would anyone scoff at say $2000 for a body this size with a full-frame sensor? Bueller?

This approach offers many, many advantages over Micro 4/3rds.]]>Nov 9th 2009 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 10th 2009 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/
Having a separate lens, sensor and body however... one will have to live with vignetting on some lenses, but you can crop that away anyway.]]>Nov 9th 2009 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/D15K/15KA.HTM

It didn't seem to sell that well, I think they only ever made two lens/sensor modules for the system.]]>Nov 9th 2009 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/
GXR : GX + GR. Ricoh's answer to "should I buy the GR Digital or the GX200" conundrum. Thing is it was actually pretty clear cut which camera was for you, a kind of personality litmus test, and if you were one you probably weren't going to be the other. The GX crowd were always pretty happy with their zoom lens, the GR group more than satisfied with their 28mm prime and neither one really was all that jealous of the other.

The huge gotcha with the GXR concept is lenses hold their value, sensors do not. Interchangeable lenses are a better investment. Two years down the road the GF1 owner upgrades to the GF2 writing off the loss, and keeps happily using his lenses with all the latest sensor and camera tech in hand. The GXR owner must replace the whole set, and write off everything as the lens modules will not be worth much by that point.





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- Micro Four-Thirds mount
- Full-frame (with lens mount)
- Foveon sensor fixed lens (same as DP1 and DP2)

The thought of a Foveon sensor + Sigma lens on a Ricoh body + Ricoh interface gets me all hot and bothered.]]>Nov 9th 2009 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 10th 2009 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/Nov 10th 2009 1:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/
I contend that the design is very good since it theoretically allows for lenses to be 100% flush with the face of the camera (something you can't do with the E-P1 or GF1). My vision for something like this had the sensor attached to the camera body, but who knows, this could be a whole lot better. I just hope you can at least send your lenses in to get the sensor upgraded if technology improves.]]>Nov 10th 2009 3:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/
The only interesting part about this is that later Ricoh could release different body types and shapes and you could buy the appearance which you like. Though it throws the whole value of glass out the window as some already have pointed out.

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The digital camera is very much in need of some innovation in fields other than 'art filters' and HDR. Digital camera hardware as it is today is strange in that at best its a holdover from the technology that it has replaced. It is peculiar that something that is the future clings so hopelessly to the past.

Take for example the form factor and workings of DSLRs, which are not ideal anymore. It was ideal for film technology... now it is just an awkward amalgamation. True, they have gotten better over the last five years... but they are fundamentally flawed. Rather than exploring the fullest advantages of the new technology it weighs itself down by conforming to film technology. Film technology is fantastic, but only when you are using film.

This problem is common across the board in digital imaging. The 'rear view mirror' mentality.

ANY innovation, such as this, is fantastic at the moment.]]>Nov 10th 2009 2:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/
This concept is flawed in that it will become prohibitively expensive, to the point where one may as well buy a separate compact and a separate SLR for essentially the same price as two of these cartridges. And in photography, good glass will always be that. A lens which shows good sharpness and low vignetting will stay that way regardless of what sensor it is put on. The sensor? Not quite. Even comparing the last decade of progress shows huge leaps forward whereas the glass itself remains fundamentally the same.

That is why 'innovation' is being received so poorly.]]>Nov 10th 2009 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/ricoh-gxr-camera-system-swaps-out-the-sensor-along-with-the-lens/
Well done to Ricoh for thinking a bit more outside of the box than everyone else.]]>Nov 10th 2009 6:53AM