Photo Rumors: new M mount camera with CCD sensor to be announced soon

For me I'm hoping that perhaps the unique shape is a taller M-body to shoot the square with a 36x36 mm sensor. More than 24 MP by 33% equals almost 32 MP.

So what if the corners might not be perfect wide open. Hoping that stopping down to F5.6 makes for a great landscape camera though.

Also know I love the CCD rendering (mucho midrange) and I seldom shoot over 800 ISO.

Cal
 
Good news if it eventuates. I hope they get the handling and the colour right - I wonder also who'd be supplying the CCD, and what architecture (full frame or interline transfer)? There wouldn't be many suppliers of this sort of chip. One is onsemi.com - does anyone know of other contenders?

Edit: maybe Dalsa..
 
I'll be happy if it is going to be Cosina-Epson reincarnation with not so old sensor and reasonable (not Leica) price.
 
I'm hoping it turns out to be some sort of Epson. That would be amazing. And my PayPal credit would be in danger. My first thought though was that Konost camera or the weird Contax renderings that were circling social media for a while but those would all have to be CMOS.
 
Same here. I still love to shoot with the Epson R-D1. Great if a reincarnation of this camera would hit the market. As the Head Bartender has said, the Epson R-D1 series went under after Cosina/Epson failed to create a world-wide after-service network so let's hope that they'll get it right this time around.
 
Full frame, or not?

ON Semi has a ~28MP "35mm" CCD in its catalog, left over from the Kodak/TrueSense days.

They also have APS-H options, though none greater than 24MP are CCD.

Would this new camera interest me? It will depend greatly on the feature set. For me, ergonomics, usability, responsiveness are as relevant to my needs as overall image quality, particularly minute CCD vs. CMOS differences, if any. Yeah, I'm in the camp that doesn't believe the differences are substantial and therefore am not on the CCD revival bandwagon.
 
I highly doubt it'll be Voigtlander or Epson... we would have heard something else by now I would think. Plus, the unique shape thing wouldn't make sense for them.
 
I'll be interested to see what if anything appears out of this rumor. All of which is rooted, at present, in Peter "Prosophos" website and nowhere else. Peter is an avowed acolyte of the "CCD is the only true wonderful sensor" universe.

It's good to have a hobby, I guess. I'd rather make photographs. ;-)

G
 
Godfrey said:
I'll be interested to see what if anything appears out of this rumor. All of which is rooted, at present, in Peter "Prosophos" website and nowhere else. Peter is an avowed acolyte of the "CCD is the only true wonderful sensor" universe.

It's good to have a hobby, I guess. I'd rather make photographs. ;-)

G
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Godfrey,

It is funny how rumors, even crazy ones, become true. Can't think of one rumor on this forum that didn't eventually become true. LOL.

I remember about 4 years ago when the rumor started that Leica was going to produce a monochrome camera. LOL. One poster stated that it was "stupid." LOL.

Cal
 
Calzone said:
It is funny how rumors, even crazy ones, become true. Can't think of one rumor on this forum that didn't eventually become true. LOL.

I remember about 4 years ago when the rumor started that Leica was going to produce a monochrome camera. LOL. One poster stated that it was "stupid." LOL.
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As I said, "I'll be interested to see what if anything appears out of this rumor. ..."

Peter's been singing the praises of CCD sensors and condemning CMOS sensors for years. He started a petition to get Leica owners signed up and demanding a CCD sensor from Leica since the day the M typ 240 was announced. As far as I can tell from doing searches around the internet, all subsequent reports of this rumor stem from the single posting on his "Prosophos" blog site.

So ... I have no issue with a new CCD camera that can take Leica M lenses. I look forward to seeing what comes out of the rumor, if anything. But I won't hold my breath while waiting.

In 1960, no one thought we could land a man on the Moon either. It did happen, but it took a bit of work and some hairy politics to get there, if you recall. :)

G
 
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