Sleeping well in Solms

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Well, the folks in Solms - if they can stop laughing - must be sleeping well tonight. With the

unveiling of Nikon's new toy mirrorless camera system, there only leaves Canon and Fuji

to come up with a small format serious systems camera to compete with next year's Leica.

 

Well, maybe Ricoh/Pentax if it can decide what is is to become.

[Guest]

...small format serious systems camera...

 

Ever seen a Minox-Colorslide? Or a Pentax-Pocket-SLR with its toy-lenses?

I think the new Nikon is too small for a serios camera system.

 

P.S.: I like my 8x11 Minoxes and an old Minolta-Pocket-Weathermatic.

[Paolo.Battista]

With the unveiling of Nikon's new toy mirrorless camera system, there only leaves Canon and Fuji to come up with a small format serious systems camera to compete with next year's Leica.

 

Well, I think that the Nikon System 1 is not a toy camera at all. It may seems (and mostly is) a toy camera too the classical RF or dSLR user. In fact, it's not aimed at all at this category of users.

 

Technologically speaking, the camera is quite a bunch of new technology demonstration:

 

• contrast and phase AF embedded into a very small package
  
• electronic shutter
  
• impressive AF specifications
  
• advanced video implementation
  

All of that embedded in a "control panel" that for sure is not aimed at the classical photogrpher, but more to a new kind of users that are typicall very digital oriented (using Smartphones, tablets, and very used to mix both pothograpy and video).

 

It's for sure not the mainstream type of camera Leica would produce (and I would use, I don't think to be able to adapt myself at that camera interface), but many of the techonologies implemented by this System should be considered with a higher attention by whom will develop the future mirrorless bodies.