Mirrorless Rumors

I wouldn’t bother with this camera unless the OVF is a vast improvement on that in the Canon G12. That OVF is what my father would have called “neither use nor ornament”. It’s a pity they couldn’t have come up with a more interesting lens specification. If I didn’t already have a CSC system I may have been interested in something more like the old Sony DSC R-1, which had a wider lens and an EVF.

I am at a different camp as you guys. For me a 35mm equiv. is wide enough, I would prefer it to be be 35-112 f2-4 but as it is it fulfills one of my needs very well:

I am a wedding professional shooting with 7D + 24-105L and 40D +85 1.8 (and a cute EP1 plus lenses as backup) I always carry the 17-40 with me in case I need something wider than 38mm (and usually I do).

With that new thingy I can replace the EP1 and the 17-40 and gain an extra stop at 28mm!

On a different note it might be a smaller sensor close to m43 but essentially it is a cropped 7D sensor which for me (and my clients) is a low light monster (shooting RAW 12800).

Yesterday I was dissapointed that the Fuji will be very expensive but today I am very happy again

All mirrorless means is that it doesn’t have a mirror not that it has interchangeable lenses. The X100 is a mirrorless camera and so is this one.

concept is great , but ugly as sin and too slow at the wide end bulky lens housing causes a too tall …too small cyclopsian vf , almost as pathetic as nikons offering , im beginning to understand why that are called canikon

they are like evil twins

sensor size is the only saving grace , all else is pathetic
grip has a nice grip pattern but overall shape and form looks like its the result of too many comittees

I have only two concerns about this camera: the viewfinder, and the optical quality. Given how compact the lens is for the zoom range and sensor size, I’m concerned about seriously compromised optical performance, especially toward the edges at the wide end. If the optical performance is good enough though, this camera is just about perfect for me, apart from the likely unacceptable viewfinder. But with good OIS, I guess I can get away with shooting with the LCD anyway, and there’s no way I could get such a perfect zoom range in such a compact large sensor camera otherwise.

On another note, the fact that this sensor is just barely larger than 4/3rds does suggest that about this size really is the best compromise between size and performance after all.

Admin, this camera does not use APS-C sized sensor (23.6 x 15.7 mm). The sensor size is (18.7 x 14mm) ‘slightly larger’ than 4/3 sensors (17.3 x 13mm).

But ‘nice try’ to Canon PR for trying to spin it as ‘nearly as large as APS-C’. In the same sense, Sony can spin the NEX as having ‘the usable image area’ of 35mm film.

its definitely not an aps-c sensor! its more or less a m4/3 sensor…