Now i know this is very unlikely..and I am starting this rumour myself but...
zeiss have just brough out their slr wide film camera..what are the chances of them getting into the dslr market with a simple dslr body..all manual/kind of like a classic slr body..but with a great sensor..something like the imacon one in the leica..and with an m42 mount to take their new zs series of lenses?..surely the perfect digital slr for anyone that does not shoot sports or weddings.
"Apparently, Hasselblad would be at readiness to present/display in Photokina important new features in its trowel of professional cameras, and thus, some of the ideas presented/displayed during the press conferences of the Centenary of Victor Hasselblad for months, could have set already in concrete products. One of those products could be a camera - or more probably an accessory of certain organization that fulfills functions extended with respect to the "previous Arc-Body" and "Flex-Body", that is to say, to offer capacity of correction of lines and management of the clearness planes. The other product, would be a entirely new camera (*), much more compacts and "integral", equipped with new adapted objectives the not less new receiver, than would be of... 37 xs 37 mm, a new standard of digital square format! The objeitvos, also new and would be specially adapted and "characterized" digitally expensive to their communication with firmware of the camera. It is ignored if Hasselblad will already have been able to go as far as it tried something ago more of a year: to make that the camera as much as the new objectives they do without clogging, trusting the management of the times of exhibition to the own receiver, who could be a CMOS. But although the product would be - when ready seeming in if same, it could not be commercialized in amounts until months after Photokina, and Hasselblad always has been very reticent to announce products with excessive advance to its availability. For that reason, it is probable that "we lose" that presentation. But on the other hand, to let pass Photokina without making the announcement, is to lose an enormous one I number of "mediatic impacts"... We will see..."
foto-z wrote:
A well-connected little birdie just told me that Canon tried to bring out a 22MP body but they pulled the plug on it, for the time being at least.
We'll soon know for sure
Yes, we know soon, but if it is true, this would show that Canon is in a much less clear leadership role than in previous years. I'd even say they seem a bit with the back to the wall with all the competition growing up.
Did that well connected friend of yours say Why Canon decided not to release the 22MP DSLR? Problems with manufacturing or bugs in the system? Or perhaps they decided they had enough new products to release already and wanted to hold off on releasing this when it would make the biggest splash?
Actually I was hoping more for this camera than the Leica, as it would allow me to take some work off the Betterlight scanback that the 5d can't quite cut but a 22MP should do quite well.
Did that well connected friend of yours say Why Canon decided not to release the 22MP DSLR? Problems with manufacturing or bugs in the system? Or perhaps they decided they had enough new products to release already and wanted to hold off on releasing this when it would make the biggest splash?
Actually I was hoping more for this camera than the Leica, as it would allow me to take some work off the Betterlight scanback that the 5d can't quite cut but a 22MP should do quite well.
Hi, I would not rely on my post but my friend does beta testing for several manufacturers and is very well-connected so I thought it was worth posting. He mentioned that they weren't getting better IQ, just bigger files. I am not sure why, but I assume that the lenses are not really supporting 22 MP and that the smaller pixels are more noisy. If that's the case, then Canon might have hit a wall and the only way up will be MF digital.
foto-z wrote:
I assume that the lenses are not really supporting 22 MP
I'd think that if lenses can support ridiculously high resolution things like 8x10 and 11x14 cameras (heck 20x24 cameras), then they'd be able to support a 22 MP 24x36mm chip. Unless the contention is that LF has so much excess resolution that you can get away with film out-resolving the lens.
Apparently spotted: Fujifilm Finepix S5 Pro, but I haven't seen a direct source on this, only a comment in a Photokina speculation thread on another forum.
Specs: Fujifilm SuperCCD SR with 16.7 mpixel combined (2x 8.35 Mpixel) with an improved DR over the S3, xD and CF slot and F-mount.
Remember, this is as shaky as it gets: I've read this elsewhere and haven't seen any confirmation or even duplication yet.
