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_julian_ wrote:
Could SONY develop a fullframe mirrorless? The statements I've read don't lend any confidence to the idea that such a camera would be optimized for use with high-incidence M lenses.
Phil Molyneux, President Sony Electronics had this to say,
The takeaway is that, although high-incidence lenses can be mounted on a fullframe camera (eg. M lenses on the VG900), the approach is flawed because of the absence of corrective elements (as found in the RX1) that would allow the sensor to perform optimally.
And this poses a sufficient challenge that SONY are forced to entirely reconsider their design away from E-mount. A 'different' geometry that would permit enough space in the throat of the mount for image-space telicentric lenses to be employed rather than symmetrical designs as used in the rangefinder world.
Mark Weir, (Senior Manager of Technology and Marketing for Sony Electronics) hints at the same thing - look at the RX1 approach and the engineering implications, rather than the E-mount for fullframe mirrorless.
Given that SONY are the anticipated sensor target for any Zeiss Ikon, fullframe Ricoh or SONY camera, the situation is not that positive....Show more →
You're probably right with Sony but I wouldn't say the same concerning Ricoh.
If Leica can make a M mount FF camera well corrected for RF wides, Ricoh should be able to do the same ( at a much lower price ) with an hypothetic M mount FF camera or GXR module. They did it very well with the current A12 M mount in APS-C ( better than the Leica M8 ).
The question is if Ricoh will awake any time soon from their hibernation, restarting/updating the GXR system or if, instead, they will revert all the resources to the Pentax line.
I'd bet for the second option, but with Ricoh you never know.
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