From the preview, "when shooting portraits at the long end of the zoom with the lens wide open, the G1 X will offer little advantage over either the X10 or XZ-1 in terms of subject isolation and background blur."
This remark is telling. What is the fastest aperture available at equivalent focal length of 80? This means the camera is hardly suited to portraiture with background blur.
One of the big advantages of the big sensor sacrificed right there.
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AnuragP: Whatever happened to the plain vanilla fixed lens cameras? Why does everything have to be an interchangeable lens system? If 1/1.7 inch sensor size cameras of the Olympus 5050C era could carry a fixed lens, why can't the 1 inch sensor camera have a fixed lens with a reasonably fast lens?
No interest at all in the 'mount'.
And instead of making the camera a machine gun, maybe Nikon should focus on base ISO IQ first and foremost.
The 1" sensor is not that big a step-up from the 1/1.7" sensor. So, a reasonably fast fixed lens is still possible, instead of the slow kit lens that is now being supplied with the CX mount. And the mount certainly makes a difference in the size. It takes up space on the camera and the lens. On a fixed lens camera, there are two benefits- one, integrating the lens in the body makes it possible for the lens parts to be inside the the plane where the front of the body will be, thus reducing the lens size. Two, it allows shorter separation between the lens and the sensor, potentially allowing for better IQ. I am no lens design expert, so if an expert claims that is not the case, then I defer to his/her opinion.
Posted on Sep 22, 2011 at 14:05:41 UTC
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Whatever happened to the plain vanilla fixed lens cameras? Why does everything have to be an interchangeable lens system? If 1/1.7 inch sensor size cameras of the Olympus 5050C era could carry a fixed lens, why can't the 1 inch sensor camera have a fixed lens with a reasonably fast lens?
No interest at all in the 'mount'.
And instead of making the camera a machine gun, maybe Nikon should focus on base ISO IQ first and foremost.
Posted on Sep 22, 2011 at 06:55:19 UTC
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From the preview, "when shooting portraits at the long end of the zoom with the lens wide open, the G1 X will offer little advantage over either the X10 or XZ-1 in terms of subject isolation and background blur."
This remark is telling. What is the fastest aperture available at equivalent focal length of 80? This means the camera is hardly suited to portraiture with background blur.
One of the big advantages of the big sensor sacrificed right there.
AnuragP: Whatever happened to the plain vanilla fixed lens cameras? Why does everything have to be an interchangeable lens system? If 1/1.7 inch sensor size cameras of the Olympus 5050C era could carry a fixed lens, why can't the 1 inch sensor camera have a fixed lens with a reasonably fast lens?
No interest at all in the 'mount'.
And instead of making the camera a machine gun, maybe Nikon should focus on base ISO IQ first and foremost.
The 1" sensor is not that big a step-up from the 1/1.7" sensor. So, a reasonably fast fixed lens is still possible, instead of the slow kit lens that is now being supplied with the CX mount. And the mount certainly makes a difference in the size. It takes up space on the camera and the lens. On a fixed lens camera, there are two benefits- one, integrating the lens in the body makes it possible for the lens parts to be inside the the plane where the front of the body will be, thus reducing the lens size. Two, it allows shorter separation between the lens and the sensor, potentially allowing for better IQ. I am no lens design expert, so if an expert claims that is not the case, then I defer to his/her opinion.
Whatever happened to the plain vanilla fixed lens cameras? Why does everything have to be an interchangeable lens system? If 1/1.7 inch sensor size cameras of the Olympus 5050C era could carry a fixed lens, why can't the 1 inch sensor camera have a fixed lens with a reasonably fast lens?
No interest at all in the 'mount'.
And instead of making the camera a machine gun, maybe Nikon should focus on base ISO IQ first and foremost.