Weird rumors: Canon and Samsung to make Medium Format cameras?
I confess, I would love to own a digital “mirrorless” medium format camera a la Mamiya 7 
May those dreams will become a reality?
According to Canonrumors “Canon is having some interest in purchasing a medium format company. Apparently they’ve moved to the point of actually opening the companies books.“.
But Canon is not the only big company moving in that direction. Via Photofan.jp
we learned that “A kind of noise caused by many large companies the agreement between the three incoming. The agreement will create a high-end photographers, photo artists and creators to create the new system.
Samsung, Schneider – Kreuznach finishing and Alpa is a big deal to create a photographic Association (SSA) to create the first fully digital, medium format camera system.
Samsung Electronics, Mr. President, Secretary Department of Justice Park said: “Each company in each of the consortium of professional and high quality system for the medium format of the sensitive components of the professional, we have completed the first medium-format CMOS sensor, and the first model electronic components. ”
Schneider Optics CEO Dwight Lindsey said: “To our actual Alpa lens system will fit with the new system, we have taken the same mount, but we are working on a new formula for the optical system and fully electronic oriented. ”
In fact, we do not have information, or in this new system will be published.
They are talking about a new system, MF cmos sensor and schneider lenses.”
Let us dream….
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Adam Maas
2 years ago |Hmm, MF system, fully digital, Schneider lenses?
Just like the Mamiya/PhaseOne 645DF with their new Schneider L/S lenses? Or the failed but excellent Rollei/Sinar/Leaf Hy6 system with its selection of Schneider and Zeiss lenses? Of course both those systems have something that this new system will lack, easily available lenses on the used market from predecessor film systems (Mamiya M645 and 645AF for the Phamiya, ROllei 6000 series for the Hy6). Oh, and market penetration in s small market currently being disrupted by the entrance of Leica and re-entrance of Pentax, both with cameras with serious advantages over the competition.
The only new aspect would be a CMOS sensor. Of course Samsung’s current APS-C CMOS sensor is outperformed by all the current MF CCD sensors on the market, so they’d actually have to bring some serious performance upgrades to the market.
Reza
2 years ago |I say it’s real. Well, if the Secretary of Department of Justice says it’s going to happen, who am I to doubt it?!
Sahaja
2 years ago |Samsung are certainly big enough to throw a lot of money at something like this – and I’m sure they would love to get one over on their Japanese rivals.
With a rangefinder system you could probably use almost any MF SLR lens with an adapter.
Sahaja
2 years ago |I meant…
With the short mount of a rangefinder system + LV you could probably use almost any MF SLR lens with an adapter.