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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
10-13-2018, 12:27 PM
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More outside the (mirrorless) box thinking...
It would not be difficult to have a mirrorless camera that can use lenses with built in shutters. Pentax has already done this in the past, of course, but the shutter speeds here would be controlled from the camera. It would be just a few lenses, not all of them. Using motor technology that's been developed for autofocus, I think speeds of 1/1000th or even 1/2000th would be attainable. If you could get flash sync at such a speed, there would be things you could do that wouldn't be possible otherwise.
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
09-21-2018, 12:15 AM
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More thinking outside the box! :)
BTW, sealing moving parts isn't as difficult and high tech as we are led to believe; It's old technology. There have been all sorts of seals on the moving parts of vehicles for years.
Here's another couple of ideas. Make the monitor a squarer shape, so information can be displayed below the image being reviewed rather than superimposed upon it. In digital preview, I like to see the histogram but it does get in the way sometimes! Another one is to have a control ring around the lens mount that could be set up to the user's preferences. This isn't a new idea; some of the better compacts have this feature. But I don't know of any interchangeable lens cameras that have this.
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
09-15-2018, 01:19 PM
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Exactly! an EVF gives huge flexibility in camera design; we are thinking along similar lines. Now, the roll film camera that really got me thinking was a Mamiya Press camera, but I'd put the grip on the right, not the left as on the Mamiya. The grip would rotate in the for and aft plane for easy handling down low/up high or landscape/portrait format. Pivoting screen flat on top; the top of the, er, 'mirrorless box' for the K mount is just the right size for it. The EVF could live under the screen. It would be an eye level viewfinder, perhaps one that pivoted so you can look down at 45 degrees into it.
I think a camera with a similar sensor, mount, screen, and EVF configuration to my above layout could be made, but with a fixed grip as per most modern cameras. It could be about the same size as a smallish 35mm SLR. Putting the screen on top is great for certain sorts of photography, and also allows more room on a smallish body for a more optimum control layout.
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
09-03-2018, 01:27 PM
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I couldn't agree more. The design could be optimised for different purposes than the DSLRs. Now, if they promoted it with a 26mm f/2.8 pancake lens...
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