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kkonkkrete

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  1. Fair enough! Speculation threads are all equally pointless. As is going for a walk on a nice day. Or, frankly, taking a photograph most of the time. I'll just stop doing things that are pointless fun, and concentrate on proper serious purposeful things instead. BTW, while I gladly respect your stated preference for me not to call you silly in the future, please feel free to call me silly any time you want ... it's just light hearted banter on my part, no harm intended. I mean it, and I'm sorry if I offended you. Anyway: any new information?
  2. Of course it isn't, silly! But, have you read the thread title? This is meant to be about asking a supposed source for information about the (speculated) camera. It's not a feature request thread. The poll doesn't list any features. It's just about information. I was just curious when or if we were actually going to get any answers about this. Perhaps we just need to wait for Photokina next year...
  3. Well, first, there are several reasons for thinking that there may indeed be a mirrorless medium format camera in the works. It is a rumour site, right? With several announcements from sources who have been reliable in the past? Plus, Zack Arias who's hand-in-glove with Fuji also publicly called for such a camera. I think we all know that this is speculation, and it's fun to speculate! Second, if the OP --- the admin of the site who posted the original rumour --- states that he will try and get answers to questions, I don't think that asking when we might hear the answers to those questions is totally unreasonable, do you?
  4. LOL, I know how to find the results of the poll ... I meant when do we find out the answers to the questions!
  5. ^^^^ This I bet it's possible to make a small, no frills MF travel camera with a sensor at least as big as the Pentax for 5 grand.
  6. Size and weight? That's the key thing for me: a genuinely portable digital medium format travel camera.
  7. I'd buy that! 60mm is probably too long for my tastes on the Sony-sized sensor, I'd prefer something a bit wider for a fixed lens (e.g. 45mm, which would be equivalent to a 35.5mm FF). But I would be very excited about such a product.
  8. Nah, Sony have FF in small package covered with the A7 and forthcoming A9 series. I've got nothing against Fuji producing a FF --- sure, go for it. But, I *really* hope they make a portable MF too. See, what is absolutely missing from the market is MF sensor in small(ish) mirrorless format. It's not a matter of competing with the existing MF market. It's about creating a new market segment at a lower price point, stripped down to the basics in terms of interface and functions and, most of all ... portable. I'm imagining a mirrorless MF camera that is smaller and lighter than a typical full-frame DSLR. There were (and still are) analogue MF range finders. Superb cameras that produce images that make even leicas weep with envy, which you can actually carry around all day with no problem. Seriously, I would LOVE it if Fuji could make such a camera. I'd even buy one with no freaking screen on the back if that helped keep costs and weight down (I know, crazy, but actually not being able to check every shot immediately makes me a WAY better photographer). Strip it down: - manual focus only - manual aperture control on the lens itself - no screen (!) OK nobody else would probably buy this :-) - a killer f/4 lens at 35mm FF equivalent (that's a 55mm on a 6x6 MF) ... trust me that's fast enough - a BIG viewfinder like on a real MF camera
  9. The thing is, upsizing or cramming more pixels into a smaller sensor just isn't the same as a larger sensor. MF is qualitatively different from APSC. It's not just about the detail, it's about the whole look and feel of the images. I don't fully understand the optical reasons why, but MF and larger images just look more like works of art. It's probably unrealistic to expect a 6x6 sensor anytime soon: at least not at a price that most people could ever afford. But even just a sensor as large as the one in the Pentax (43.8 x 32.8mm) is a big step up from APSC. Check out some example images from the Pentax: I don't think the lenses are that great, it's the sensor size and pixel size that give them that look. I have a MF analogue (Norita 66) which I absolutely love shooting. But it's way too heavy to carry around all day, and digital has many well-established advantages over film (although I still love film!) so I'm hoping for a portable digital MF camera: there is really nothing on the market that you can use for travel and street photography.
  10. Really, really hoping this rumour comes true. The Sony alpha rumour of a Mamiya 7 style mirrorless medium format seems to have fizzled. I wish the companies would focus more on larger sensor than ever more pixels in APSC and FF. Medium format makes a huge difference to the look of images: the fall off away from the in-focus regions, the dynamic range, the sharpness, everything about medium format is godly, epic and monumental. Environmental portraits look amazing in medium format. They look like works of art. I also really hope someone brings out a camera with a square sensor at some point. Composing on a 6x6 analogue camera is a dream. Yes I know you can crop afterwards, but it's not the same. Please FUJI, make an affordable, *portable* digital medium format camera a reality!
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