It looks wonderful but I wonder if a similar shot from Canon or Nikon would not look at least as good. As someone who has quite a lot of Canon lenses I have no interest in getting into another system. However, if they were to make a similar body with EF mount (Kodak did it once) I think I'd be tempted to add it as a second body.
I will pre-order one as soon as that is possible; I have had two SD-14s and I sold them only because of other aspects I needed at the time. The IQ was excellent, but the system was not ready for 'prime time' as a whole.
I am going to send my Contax N 50 to be converted to SA mount for 75/1.4. There is always the Sigma 12-24 II for 18-36mm UWA. So I guess this may well be my new landscape and portrait camera.
Need to wait for both the SD1 and 12-24 II to be officially launched first.
Someone pls make a EF-SA or SA-EF adapter with electronics.
Yakim Peled wrote: These guys used to convert the mounts. Don't know if they are still active.
Happy shooting,
Yakim.
They seemed to have gone quiet after a few SD14 conversions. Anyway, they are meddling too much with the internals. Would be nice if a cleaner method of conversion can be done.
Yakim if you download the pdf you will see that this clarity is unachievable for bayer, is just if the dog was here, there is no hint of artifacts, is really something to consider, this quality is not reachable by a bayer sensor, I think so
desinteresadam wrote:
Yakim if you download the pdf you will see that this clarity is unachievable for bayer, is just if the dog was here, there is no hint of artifacts, is really something to consider, this quality is not reachable by a bayer sensor, I think so
I did not see that myself because once the pdf is converted in photoshop, you will see that the file size would have to be just about doubled to match the file size from say a Sony a900 or Nikon D3x. Doing so results in an image that the a900 bayer sensor could easily make. Who knows what has happened with this pdf though. I see quite a bit of blotchiness in the blacks for instance. We really need to see some first generation SD-1 camera output to get a better idea of what this camera is capable of. I'm hoping this dog image is not representative.
