How's About a 1" Sensor DSLR?

Lyff wrote:

Tatouzou wrote:

Mark Ransom wrote:

peterpainter wrote:

Yes, I remember the original 4/3 system. The change to Micro 4/3 seems to have been a stroke of genius, really, but I wasn't aware that there were problems with the OVF.

I don't know if there were problems as such, but obviously the concept didn't work out if they had to abandon it.

The Sony RX10 is interesting but as others have pointed out (no doubt many times before) you are buying lens and body together, so those who bought the mark 3 (or whatever) need to buy both lens and body again if they want to upgrade the body - trade-in no doubt softens the blow. The other downside is that if one wants to use it with a wide-angle or short prime / zoom, say, just for the day, one has to carry the whole lot - but again, of course, just buy another camera. First-world solution;-)

The upside is when the body and lens are designed together they can be perfectly matched to each other. No need to worry about if it will work with next year's version.

Anyway, it was just an idea - a nice little DSLR on the lines of the Pentax 110 Slr seems somehow appealing to me. Pentax could offer it in some nice colour variations:-) - some of the Q colours are very attractive.

I would have considered the Q if it had a 1" sensor. They took a good idea just a bit too far.

AFAIK, the Nikon 1 is the only 1" ILC camera still available new, though Nikon seems to have stopped the production; and of course it is mirrorless.

That's a little sad, I always thought 1" is a good sensor size for many things like macro and long range shooting while keeping a very good image quality at pixel level, and usually 1" sensors are super powerful for fast shooting and video (especially for slow motion). And of course the size of the system is super small.

But frankly I don't think it would have ever worked with Nikon, Panasonic or Sony seems to me far better choice to support a 1 inch system.

Another issue with the Nikon 1 systemis that MFT can be as small, pair a GM5 with the super small panasonic 14-42 and you're as small as the Nikon 1 system can be, but with a viewfinder and more controls to play with.

I have GM5 + Panasonic 12-32, which is a good lens, starts wider than the 14-42, and is smaller.