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taran wrote:
In general, Sony has allowed fixed lens compacts parity with their sub FF sensors 12 months after release to 1st tier customers, and 6 months after 2nd tier customers.
We'll see very soon whether Panasonic scores a hit with a 20+ mpix Sony sensor before Fuji X100(). I expect LX100mk2 in January, or June. Depending on what Sony has decided.
It's an interesting observation about sensor production and client availability that you make, but I'm wondering if it's been more a simple case of production supply capacity limitations meeting client demand. And it's likely true that higher-profit sensors go into production before lower-profit units, in general, but I'm thinking that there are a lot more dynamics to this marketplace considering the global demand for imaging sensors, in general.
(On a side not, it's probably best that Sony split off its sensor and camera divisions, if, for nothing else, it'll help level the playing field when it comes to sensor availability as "Sony Camera" will have to compete for production runs along with, oh say, Nikon for the next iteration of FF sensors from "Sony Sensor"! Ha!)
Getting back on topic with the LX100, for someone like me, who's been in the market for a "killer" pocket camera but has been cursing every manufacturer for their seemingly consistent behavior of "cheaping out" with baby-sized sensors for the past decade, the introduction of a, um, "cropped" 16MP M43 sensor turned my head...finally. I can't tell you how many times over the past year I've nearly pulled the trigger on this camera but decided to hold-out and wait to see what the competition would have to offer in the "large sensor, pocket zoom" category! And the only other competitor (by my criterions) has turned out to be the RX100 IV. So, at this point, it seems as though Panasonic is competing with itself for this market space and, well, since it's already been 10 years I might as well just wait for the Mark II and hope they give it a tilt/flip screen!
Sometimes "size" is the "killer app"!
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