just pondering before lunch, (my wife is shopping and I am waiting for her to return with her excellent "waitress service" - sorry ladies!)
A technical question for you experts – I am not, (an expert), so some of what I say may be rubbish, (if so please patronise me)
Panasonic are now getting into Nikon price territory with their lens prices – i.e. their 7mm to 14mm zoom is almost 900 of our british pounds
OK – are these lenses dedicated to the current M4/3 cameras, (yes presumably is the answer) – in the same way that Nikon etc., produce DX lenses to suit their DX format cameras, (these being less than suitable for their FX cameras, especially at the wide end).
If, (when), - soon – they decide to fit a bigger sensor to the M4/3 format, will these current dedicated lenses suffer the same fate as the DX DSLR lenses.
(I know the very expensive high end Nikons have dual mode)
Also if a larger sensor is fitted to the G1 etc., will it no longer be a M4/3 camera in the true sense of the definition, (i.e. does M4/3 relate to the size of the sensor)
Or am I spouting a load of rubbish?
(Oh, my point would be that DX to FX (has/is) taking time and DX (will probably) be around to complement FX (for ever!) - but M4/3 could move a lot faster in its development and we could see a bigger sensor this year)
A technical question for you experts – I am not, (an expert), so some of what I say may be rubbish, (if so please patronise me)
Panasonic are now getting into Nikon price territory with their lens prices – i.e. their 7mm to 14mm zoom is almost 900 of our british pounds
OK – are these lenses dedicated to the current M4/3 cameras, (yes presumably is the answer) – in the same way that Nikon etc., produce DX lenses to suit their DX format cameras, (these being less than suitable for their FX cameras, especially at the wide end).
If, (when), - soon – they decide to fit a bigger sensor to the M4/3 format, will these current dedicated lenses suffer the same fate as the DX DSLR lenses.
(I know the very expensive high end Nikons have dual mode)
Also if a larger sensor is fitted to the G1 etc., will it no longer be a M4/3 camera in the true sense of the definition, (i.e. does M4/3 relate to the size of the sensor)
Or am I spouting a load of rubbish?
(Oh, my point would be that DX to FX (has/is) taking time and DX (will probably) be around to complement FX (for ever!) - but M4/3 could move a lot faster in its development and we could see a bigger sensor this year)