Yes, I would LOVE to see one! I could just put my SA mount lenses on it and focus in live view mode and every image would be as clear and sharp as possible, just like my DP2 except with lenses such as the 70-200 F2.8 OS!
Not a good omen. The market killed the higher quality product ...
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agree, and the D700 was a huge sucess for Nikon (I love mine
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You are forgetting the benefits of over sampling. There is a reason why A/D converters for sound over samples maybe 16 times. Its because you then can build advanced digital filters that makes optimal recordings. The same goes for images.
Yes - I would like more dynamic range.
Yes it will. There are solutions though. And the Fuiji is not one of the best ones. Its actually rather poor as you get lots of noise in the critical medium gray area.
The only benefit to oversampling is to allow a more gradual rolloff of the anti-aliasing filter. Analog filters (optical and electronic) have a nasty phase response on filters with a fast rolloff. You allow a slow rolloff and these nasty phase properties are mitigated. However, a 25% increase above Nyquist is quite sufficient. Much above that - you are not capturing any additional information.
For me it is now about the lenses. My SA-mount lenses fit only Sigma cameras.
When it is used in English, “uber” is a valid English word of German origin, and does not need umlauts.
You could convert your lenses to Canon mount. OS might not work, but otherwise there should be no restrictions.
You are right that the main reason for oversampling is that you cannot make good analog filters.
It depends on the frequency. At a couple GHz you can build filters with good phase response at 25%. The lower you get in frequency the more difficult that task becomes. It all gets down to resonance frequencies of components of the filters. Also good sharp cutoff filters at audio frequencies are huge (size). The solution there is to simply use filters with a very gradual roll off as anti-aliasing filters. The sample rates are low enough in won't matter. That is not necessary at higher frequencies.
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You are right, but in order to make the lens a good enough AA filter you have to oversample. And this oversampling is not 25% over the resolution of the lens. If its 1500% I dont know. Maybe its only 300%. But its absolutely not 25% There are things happening with the image far above resolution limit.
I think you might have a different definition than me for P&S, to me that's a little beyond that category... but it's good to know it gets good results.
Not really, they have had some pretty good jumps but not what I would consider major, especially since in a lot of cameras gains of resolution has been offset by noise or other processing issues. Only recently have the sensors seemed to catch up quality wise with the resolution they were capturing. Along the way has been a pretty incremental climb.
Sure, but to me that's kind of a specialized niche use. Serious videographers I do not think are threatened by DSLR video. If given the choice I'd still take a RED unit over any modern DSLR with video.
Not that I have seen.
It's not my vision, it's thiers.
What? If the lens only supports a spatial frequency resolution that is less than supported by the sensor - you are done. The lens is an AA filter because it attenuates frequencies below Nyquist.
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I like that idea, I just bought an NEX-5 for a carry around camera and it does certain things very well...plus really good video. I'll probably get one of these small cameras every few years (kids get the old technology to learn on) An NEX type camera would be cheap enough for people to try the sensor...but they HAVE to start including comparable features in any camera they sell
For a serious camera - one I mean worth 6 K plus for the body - you better have a 135 format sensor. I think come January and the next release of Canon/Nikon/Sony if you want that much money for a camera you better be FF. The Nikon D700 is FF at about 2500 and a kick butt camera. Throw a D3x sensor in it - call it the D800 for 2500 - it is going to put a lot of pressure on cameras that want 6K plus. I expect Canon and Sony will also have a competitor.
Sigma has to show they can migrate the Foveon design to a 24x36 sensor before they can even consider medium format. Given they seem to have issues even going to ASP-C that I think is not likely soon.
The reflex camera solved a problem when they were designed. Today there are other ways to solve that problem which doesn't require a reflex camera. Eventually I expect the reflex camera will give way to another design - one that is physically more compact.
