Choice is good. More choice is better. My early years in photography were a time of many brands and many technical approaches. Recent years have seen a narrowing of these choices and I applaud any manufacturer who gives us variety. Foveon should be a choice that we can widely use, but a single brand stranglehold is killing it.
This micro 4/3 concept could or should be the new interchangeable lens rangefinder. I'd look forward to some fast wide lenses, and some superfast standards. Lens speed for stills cameras has been stalled for decades, AFAIK Canon's 50(ish)/0.95 from the sixties is still the speed king. 4/3 mount SLRs require retrofocus design for their standard 25mm lenses which makes superfast lenses either too difficult or too pricey, but with a shorter register (I presume) the way would be open for this category to return. Yippee. Regards, Anthony Farr > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Timber > Sent: Wednesday, 6 August 2008 5:32 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: OT: New Olympus Micro Four Thirds announcement > > Probably most of you heard about the new Micro Four Thirds system. Long > story short: Oly/Pana is working on an interchangeable compact camera :D > > I believe this will bring a 'revolution' to low-price segment of > photography by creating a new 'category', the interchangeable compacts > (kicking bridge category in the rear) or it will fail and will be just a > bad experiment. > > What do you think? Will it influence the DSLR market anyhow? > > .t > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
