And: will the body size be getting smaller or not?bfitzgerald wrote:And the big question is can they nail good, fast, accurate AF that can track action without a mirror?
For both I hope not...
And: will the body size be getting smaller or not?bfitzgerald wrote:And the big question is can they nail good, fast, accurate AF that can track action without a mirror?
If Sony go for mirrorless then maybe they are confident that the new combined phase detect/contrast detect system works (or can be made to work) well enough such as now used in my NEX-6. Presumably there will be new improved sensors incorporating phase detect pixels. Maybe the relative success (for Sony) of the NEX system versus SLT have encouraged them to put everyting into mirrorless. I don't see Sony going back to mirror. They will not make any dent in CAN/NIK. According to SAR Sony are not ditching A mount so it will be someting different from NEX maintaining the A mount sensor to lens distance (or maybe a hybrid mount that can take both A mount and E lenses. Who knows what Sony are up to now. If a hybrid mount in in the pipeline then any lens of repute can be fitted using suitable converters including speed boosters. The appeal will widen to just about every enthusiast and professional photographer.And the big question is can they nail good, fast, accurate AF that can track action without a mirror?
Haven't Ricoh already done this?agorabasta wrote:I think the only logical solution is to make camera bodies with interchangeable mount modules. As long as the mount module is a standard part across the bodies, the cost of the system may stay reasonably low. Such mount modules may include an E, a full legacy A, a no-screwdrive A and then maybe some fully electronic 'post-A' type.
So I am "spreading the word". Perhaps someone close to Sony have been instructed to send this message to quell any speculation that their A mount lenses may become obsolete.After yesterday’s post about Sony removing the SLT tech form the APS-C series quite some people got scared that this also means the end of the Alpha Mount lines. I keep stressing you that this isn’t true and that the A-mount line will keep being developed. Three years ago Sony switched from Optical viewfinder to Electronic Viewfinder with translucent mirror. And next year we will see another switch (with some surprise?). The dead of SLT is just the dead of a feature..not the dead of the camera line
So what’s the goal of Sony? One of my best Sony sources that always shared correct info sent me a short sentence:
“The Alpha line is not going away. They are working on technology that will outshine the competitors for early release next year.”
He is a top source and in one year from now we will be able to see and touch the new Alpha Camera Generation. Trust SAR and that source…he always told me the truth! Spread the word!
They did, in a way; and it was not too good. Sony must try much better to succeed with that.Atgets_Apprentice wrote:Haven't Ricoh already done this?
This answers many of my questions. Thanks.agorabasta wrote:Having a large mirror chamber is a good thing. It improves telecentricity.
But the most important thing is that they may put there something else, like the hot mirror; and more importantly, that hot mirror may be in the same slanted position as the current SLT mirror. This way the reflected IR is removed from the optical path. And then the IR absorption filter may also be glued onto the hot mirror, and would completely eliminate the problems with the sensor toppings internal reflections. And Sony actually applied for a patent describing the IR filter placed on the SLT mirror.
And then, having that IR filter in place of SLT mirror makes it possible to have the sensor sitting in an effectively sealed compartment.
Then there's another possibility - the mirror chamber doesn't have to be filled with air (empty), it may be filled with some dense optical medium having all the IR filter parts placed inside of chunk of solid matter or in some liquid. That could serve two purposes - push the diffraction limit farther, and also it would make the former mirror chamber depth smaller, thus helping to make the system thinner.
So there's a lot of opportunities they may think of; the question remains if they are going to use any of those.
The sensor sees its own IR anyway, but that IR is the low-K heat radiation and the silicon is not sensitive to that.Greg Beetham wrote:I was reading some stuff about sensor design and they were saying the wiring grid overlay was some kind of IR interference filter in its own right, but that one had me baffled, unless it runs at a temperature that’s less than the rest of the sensor maybe, (absorption) it wouldn’t be small enough to act as a band-pass filter surely? They are making sensor components on a µm scale not an nm scale correct?
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