To be honest, if it's not FF, it's a missed opportunity.
how can it be a FF camera when they are fully invested in m4/3?
It will be a m4/3 camera with the same old sensor probably...
It would show guts to abandon the silly 2x crop mount, but they won't do it.
Olympus is probably at the wrong end of the list of camera makers not already there that are likely to release a full frame dSLR system. It's a pity.
I really dislike 4/3, I did however give it a whirl with the Olympus E3 and man was that camera sweet, lenses were first rate too. I used a Leica R to 4/3 adapter with great results. I paid an exorbitant amount for that (Leica's own adapter) and still have the adapter.
I am willing to give the adapter away for cost of shipping though, I still have it boxed I think. Just PM if interested. It is a Leica R to 4/3 mount adapter, first rate.
I have a silly question: Is it possible to have two sensors to be used as one? Given that the micro 4/3rds size is about half that of a 35mm FF would it be possible to put them side by side and have the camera merge the image into a 35 equivalent image? Perhaps with two controllers for each sensor and a third that does the combining duty?
crazeazn wrote:
I have a silly question: Is it possible to have two sensors to be used as one? Given that the micro 4/3rds size is about half that of a 35mm FF would it be possible to put them side by side and have the camera merge the image into a 35 equivalent image? Perhaps with two controllers for each sensor and a third that does the combining duty?
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't this the way MFDB sensors are produced?
edwardkaraa wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't this the way MFDB sensors are produced?
No, they are a single chip still. However, during manufacture everything is done with photolithography and the optical systems for photolithography can't handle such a large area. So for every step they have to expose multiple carefully aligned sub-arrays to produce such a large sensor. That's probably what you are thinking of.
Actually FF sensors require a similar technique. APS-H is the largest sensor size that can be produced with single photolithographic exposures. Once you get past that point manufacturing cost soars. (Well, it is always higher for larger area, but the multiple photolithographic process makes it even more expensive than you'd expect based on area alone). In a white paper Canon claimed manufacturing cost for a FF sensor was as high as 20 times that of an APS-C sensor!
snowboarder wrote:
how can it be a FF camera when they are fully invested in m4/3?
It will be a m4/3 camera with the same old sensor probably...
It would show guts to abandon the silly 2x crop mount, but they won't do it.
Well, if it's OM mount, it could easily be FF.
I wouldn't expect Oly to abandon 4/3rds. But a FF OM halo product with a small selection of new OM primes would make a great halo system for them (a la the Pentax 645D).
I'd expect that if it is OM mount we're looking at a 24.5MP Sony sensor and a price around $2-3k.
Wait! We already have a few really nice FF DSLR's. What we don't have is a small DSLR. A OM40 sized DSLR could be a winner even with a crippled 4/3 sensor.
$600 ?
OM just isn't OM without a pentaprism!