speculatrix

The Lumix series from Panasonic used to only have lens stabilisation, for the same reasons you quote, and I agree if you can only have one system, that's the best choice. Olympus went the other way...

The Noct lens will be beyond most people's budget, costing more than most people spend on camera gear in a decade!

Well, given this is a premium system because of the 35mm sensor, I can't imagine Nikon bringing out a much cheaper models (to rival the d3xxx, d5xxx and d7xxx crop sensor range), but I agree there...

I hope Nikon make it reasonably cheap to licence the system, like micro4/3rds, to build a rival ecosystem to m43, so we will see an interesting range of third party lenses and interesting/unusual...

At the moment of writing this, 26th August (Sunday, before midday, UK time) there are 19 people who say they own it. How is this possible?

I'd consider switching from micro4/3rds if Nikon or Canon produce a mirrorless system that's not been deliberately designed to be a poor alternative to their full DSLRs so as not to compete. I...

easy at making money for lawyers!

no, @srados I can only give or assign the rights which are mine to give or assign. If I give you a piece of art which is copyrighted and the copyright wasn't assigned to me, you get to keep your...

But isn't it the case that the US Gov't can't claim copyright on things?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government
So it depends on whether the Gov't are keepers...

actually, many young people only think about whether a device is an Apple (iphone or pad) or a Samsung or other big name. It's unlikely they could explain anything specific technical difference...

I think something went wrong with the hotshoe.

Ending a sentence with "Period" doesn't mean you're correct, it suggests you've made up your mind right or wrong (in this case you're wrong) and aren't prepared to discuss it.
So why bother to...

all images are copyrighted. sometimes it's hard to tell who controls the copyright, either because the image never had a copyright watermark or meta data, or because the intellectual property...

ah, Jacques Cornell, the megapixel myth.
there's no point in having more pixels than the resolving power of the lens, which is a function of the lens' diffraction limit.

but you also have to consider whether you want torque or power

its all about the distance between camera and subject and not about the lens in use. changing the lens allows you to change the distance between camera and subject.

No, if you don't move the camera, the scene it can see doesn't change, you just select more or less of it according to sensor size and lens field of view

yes, but that's just cropping.
the scene in front of the camera is not affected by the lens magnification/field of view. by changing the sensor size or lens focal length you just choose how much of...

A corollary of this is that the perspective in a photo is not about the sensor size!
It doesn't matter if you have a phone camera with a tiny sensor or a medium format sensor camera, if they're the...

No mention of licensing fees, patents and other proprietary lock-ins?
Before I even went near a standard like this I would ask some intense questions about licensing - pay for encoding, pay per...