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Does NX1 body deserve a multiple aspect-ratio sensor?

Started Feb 24, 2014 | Polls thread
hootsmon
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Re: Does NX1 body deserve a multiple aspect-ratio sensor?
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mrggt wrote:

could well be a square censor of sorts if the rumoured 28mp sensor is correct (29.9mp 5472 x5472) perhaps they could be making it a little smaller to ease edge problems from the lenses?

Exactly so!  When that 28Mp sensor snippet was supposedly 'leaked', I guess many folks just assumed yet another round of Megapixel wars.  But.... while I've no objection to the concept of smaller pixels per se, I'm suggesting there's a simpler, more plausible explanation which is the designers chose to go the square sensor route instead.

This is probably a wild guess on my part, but I'm hypothesizing that the NX designers  didn't just pluck random dimensions out of thin air; I reckon maybe they were working towards a longer-term goal. So when I noticed that a 20x20mm square sensor happens to cover the NX image-circle exactly, that's when the square sensor idea started to make perfect sense to me.

I'm amazed nobody has already made square sensors, just think never have to change from portrait to landscape or have any need for an extra grip. if they were to make a square format sensor this would make many people interested imo and could well get many more on board with the nx system

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