Micro Four Thirds & Leica M Mount

Pitxu said:
Well, he states this:

"Apparently Stephan Daniels of Leica, in a news conference on Aug. 14th said that Leica will no longer have 4/3rds products,.. "

But no link to the news conference.
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Apparently is apparently truth on the Internets....

I'm not saying I disbelieve it, but right, where is the reference the specific news conference, much less a link to the text/transcription.

I'll wait for definitive confirmation or denial. Anyway, it doesn't mean others might jump in.
 
Hey I don't know about the rest of you but I see the 4/3 system as the beginning of the end of SLRs.

The mirror box and pentaprism glass add a lot of weight to a camera and with high end digital SLRs hitting the scales at three pounds who wouldn't want to cut the weight.

I mean, hello, the LCD monitor eliminated the glass optical system and P&S cameras could be even smaller then film P&S cameras. Why shouldn't this 4/3 system eliminate a lot of SLRs.

I've used EVF cameras since the Dimage A-1 and the EVf screens have their issues but hell those should be overcome easily as the need for better EVF grows. But carrying around a 10 ounce camera with a 28-504mm Leica lens like my Panasonic FZ18 is a bit of a mind blower. Cost around $300 and I can make very credible, sharp 11x14 inch prints and I studied printing with folks from the Ansel Adams school and have printed for museum shows.

Do not underestimate where this is going.

And newbie shooters and I mean a lot of younger folks have no allegiance to either rangefinders or SLRs.

A cool looking small 4/3 camera that weighs a pound, csot a couple of hundred dollars less then a dSLR and uses interchangeable lenses--that's a winner i'll bet.

Steve
 
I'm not saying I disbelieve it, but right, where is the reference the specific news conference, much less a link to the text/transcription.
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The reference is MJH in LuF which was at the press confernce where Mr. Daniel told this at request. You won´t find a communiqué .
MJH is writer at LFI and in my opinion honest and reliable.

BTW: http://www.dpnet.com.cn/html/2008-8/20080822_39647.html
 
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In the current British Journal of Photography it states that Panasonic and Olympus are launching micro 4/3 as a CLOSED system. In other words, at the moment neither Leica nor Sigma are invited to the party. So not much chance of a Leica micro 4/3rds rangefinder.
 
jaapv said:
Maybe because our Chinese isn't too hot?
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did somebody call? :cool:

The site says its a possible design concept for a future camera, not that it is the future design.

Oh and I wonder if anyone stopped to think that if this camera has no shutter then where will it be? In the lenses? This is essentially a rangefinder design camera with no rangefinder, but you get the short flange to sensor plane and the ability to design simpler lenses not based on a retrofocus design to accommodate a mirror. But that still begs the question of where the shutter will be.... I dont think we are about to see leaf shutter lenses coming....interesting to see what will happen.
 
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I guess you would all like a little more in depth wording. Fine.

很诱人 松下Mini4/3新机想象图

Prototype mini 4/3 dream camera

奥林巴斯和松下联合发布的Mini 4/3标准宣告了小型可换镜头数码相机时代的来临，引起网友无限期待与遐想……

Olympus and Panasonic's new mini 4/3, a small format interchangeable lens camera coming soon. Everyone is excited about this.

有日本网友在网上贴出了所谓“松下Mini 4/3系统新机想象图”，不清楚这位网友的底细，虽自称“爱好者凭空想象”的效果，但是否松下以此来试探用户的反应也未可知。

Posted on a Japanese website, an anonymous person put up a prototype rendering of his idea of a mini 4/3 camera to get responses and opinions from people.
 
Avotius said:
Oh and I wonder if anyone stopped to think that if this camera has no shutter then where will it be?
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That one is not too hard to answer: an electronic shutter in the readout of the sensor, like all point-and-shoot cameras.
 
jaapv said:
That one is not too hard to answer: an electronic shutter in the readout of the sensor, like all point-and-shoot cameras.
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hm...all the point and shoots I have ever had have had a shutter in the lens, if you watch carefully you can see it clicking over.
 
I'm no scientist, as this question may show, but why do you need a shutter. With a digital camera, why can't a signal be sent to tell the sensor to stop receiving after 1/10 sec, 30 sec, a minute, or whatever.
 
georgef said:
thats the aperture, I think :D
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please...I can tell the difference between and aperture blade and a shutter, this covers all the light coming in. Go get your point and shoot and point it at you and carefully look at the hole the push the button or you can just go read that steves digicam thing which explains it.
 
Hmm... Funny - my Digilux2 is absolutely noise- and shutterless.....

Edit: post retracted...It has one, I never noticed.....
 
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jaapv said:
See my edit :eek:
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wonder if this makes me an anarak for actually looking close enough to notice that thing...

Anyway it still has to make you wonder where the shutter is. Since an adapter can be used for standard 4/3 lenses that means the shutter can't be like a leaf shutter rf lens unless the shutter is in the adapter itself. Maybe there will be an in body shutter solution like what you find in a bessa or zeiss ikon. That would not be so bad. Or maybe a whole new shutter concept has been developed.
 
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