Re: Official: Fujifilm GFX 50S Medium Format Announced!
curious80 wrote:
Fuji is just buying a sensor from Sony like many other companies do. This is not a combined engineering effort and there is no reason whatsoever to think that Sony has any say or involvement in Fuji firmware. Also focus peaking doesn\'t depend on any specific support from the sensor. Sony has no role to play in the quality of Fuji\'s focus peaking algorithms.
I think you are incorrect. The most important part of the camera, and the most expensive component, is produced by Sony. Features that Fuji would like to incorporate MUST first be made available by Sony. In this case, no one on earth would request this chip unless Sony was selling it for dirt cheap. NO 4k, no full res jpgs (I\'m guessing, but i don\'t know), not full medium format size, no x-trans (which Fuji pimps as a premium thing, but now its left out).
Quite frankly, Sony has duped Fuji again by buying a digital format/size that was never popular in the film era. They probably had leftovers from the pentax 645z fab, and they were sitting on the shelf for the last three years while Sony debated whether or not to create a mirrorless pseudo MF category.
NOTHING about the Fuji mirrorless camera was Fuji\'s idea, and they aren\'t allowed to have features not expressly better than Sony\'s own offerings. They have, like hasselblad, sold out to become a \"body mod\" of Sony sensors, once they reach a certain price point three years after Sony has debuted them in the camera companies willing to pay a premium.
Sep 23, 2016 at 11:58 AM
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