Given that they say they can halve the lens to sensor distance the camera should be at least as thin as the G9.
What is far more exciting is the fact that we aren't talking about one body here. It's two manufacturers (Leica as well possibly) and a whole line of cameras in the future. No doubt you will get really small ones, bodies with rotating LCD's, bodies with EVF and LCD, bodies with no viewfinder at all - the future looks bright!
I just hope to hell they are content with a p&s type flash and don't try to put a huge SLR type flash housing on it!
If they can get the price of the lenses down and the micro 4/3 cameras take good pictures at higher ISOs, it might be worth it, who knows. Right now the P&S models are essentially all the same to me, none of them work well in the ISO ranges I use.
pat_c wrote:
Sony tried something similar with the R1 and didn't sell very well. I really wish they'd make what you're talking about, but who'd buy it? I use a Sony R1 as my back-up camera, and it works wonders whenever I need an absolutely silent camera, or whenever I need a waist-level finder.
The R1 isn't similar to a micro 4:3 camera at all. The R1 doesn't have interchangeable lenses and it was not designed to be compact.
rwalls3 wrote: . I guess it depends on your definition of "not much bigger." I was thinking of...basically same size give or take a few millimeters and grams.
Yep. That picture is with the lens retracted; you specified extended. The E-420 is not much bigger than the G9.
I would love to have one of these, small enough to fit in a pocket, with a quickish (f/2.0) 24/28/35/50 35mm equiv. lens option. I'd bring one w/ a wide lens everywhere.
It must be rough getting through life, unable to hold objects smaller than a digital SLR.
Somehow I manage.
Actually, though, it's not the holding that bothers me, it's the pressing of the tiny little buttons that are approximately a nanometer apart. At least the tiny little buttons on the 5D and 1D-series have some space between them.
. I guess it depends on your definition of "not much bigger." I was thinking of...basically same size give or take a few millimeters and grams. 