Originally posted by Adam Quote:
Not often do we get access to a technology that has the potential to change how photographers work. A technology that enables photographers to create images like never before, only limited by their imagination. This is about sharpness, resolution, speed, fidelity, and so much more. It's a game changer.
This is about sharpness, resolution, speed, fidelity, and so much more. It's a game changer
Okay Sherlock what is this about ?
Why release this news with a MF photographer and not by some Head of Ricoh ?
"Sharpness" - no mirrorslap.
"Resolution" - no mirrorslap.
"Speed" - Translucent mirror more frames per second. Could become a sports camera.
"Fidelity" - Fidelity is maintained virtually no loss of light hitting the sensor.
I think its the variable translucent mirror in a 645Z.
It would be the path of least resistance and improve the frames per second, and remove mirrorslap from the equation of medium format.
Putting in SR on the 645Z sensor might be a complex job. Then there's the problem of moving that mass. Pentax already implemented OIS for medium format.
Getting rid of the mirror box and wacking in a variable translucent mirror requires much lower engineering than SR on the sensor.
Why did they give this to a Medium Format Pentaxian ? Perhaps this is a beta, to see if there will be any interest, and if the reaction to it is a flop, Munoz is the one to suffer, and Ricoh and Pentax suffers less flack.
If its a flop, then Pentax can drop the tech and keep on going with the 645Z.
I don't think it will be a flop. I've had a Sony SLT and they were pretty good, just in poor light they were useless. Variable translucent mirrors will eliminate that problem, raise the frames per second (perhaps electronic shutter above 1/8000th of a second shooting), and still maintain fidelity (maybe 99% light transmission compared to Sony's 70%).
A sports Medium Format. Thats what I say.