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WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system
      #698973 - 30/08/2008 10:48

Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: Damien Demolder]
      #698979 - 30/08/2008 11:11

Looks as though manufacturers are sizing up for a fight over this sector of the market. I wonder where this rush for small will leave full-sized DSLRs in ten years. At least it won't be a one horse race now and that has to be good for prices.

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: Damien Demolder]
      #698991 - 30/08/2008 11:58

The most interesting bit was this
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Although many details are still to be decided on Lee predicts that the new system will be ready for sale in the spring of 2010.




So don't hold your breath!


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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: Photocracy]
      #699006 - 30/08/2008 12:31

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Looks as though manufacturers are sizing up for a fight over this sector of the market. I wonder where this rush for small will leave full-sized DSLRs in ten years. At least it won't be a one horse race now and that has to be good for prices.




Ok Wild Speculation

Compact I/Lens cameras will take up the position currently held by consumer/mid range DSLR's, above that DSLR's as we know them will become fully featured Multi-Media cameras eating into the market currently held by the larger Pro DV cameras.

Feature set is the thing, Nikon have DV in the D90 and it can only continue to evolve.

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: Iloca]
      #699029 - 30/08/2008 13:22

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Compact I/Lens cameras will take up the position currently held by consumer/mid range DSLR's, above that DSLR's as we know them will become fully featured Multi-Media cameras eating into the market currently held by the larger Pro DV cameras.



If so I'll be back to 100% film.


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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: Iloca]
      #699031 - 30/08/2008 13:23

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Feature set is the thing, Nikon have DV in the D90 and it can only continue to evolve.




Pah. A tool should do one job and one job only. And do it well.


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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: RogerMac]
      #699032 - 30/08/2008 13:31

Quote:

The most interesting bit was this
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Although many details are still to be decided on Lee predicts that the new system will be ready for sale in the spring of 2010.




So don't hold your breath!





... I wonder why they have given so much notice?

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: beejaybee]
      #699033 - 30/08/2008 13:38

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Feature set is the thing, Nikon have DV in the D90 and it can only continue to evolve.




Pah. A tool should do one job and one job only. And do it well.




For you and me and a good few on AP forums yes, but the next generation? they're more computer/media savvy than I'll ever be, BeBo/Facebook/Youtube/Blogging etc, etc, etc. DV is becoming increasingly popular.

I was happy when my 1st mobile phone could make and recieve calls but it's wouldn't cut it now with the consumers who have the most disposable income

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: beejaybee]
      #699039 - 30/08/2008 14:15

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Feature set is the thing, Nikon have DV in the D90 and it can only continue to evolve.




Pah. A tool should do one job and one job only. And do it well.




I completely agree - but the sad reality is, I think, that photographic technology has for years been driven more by fashion and fancy than by real photographic need. The masses - rather than the actual core of professionals and enthusiasts, whose concern is the photography itself rather than ever more, and more flashy, electronic trinkets - are where all the development money is recouped and the profits are made. And that has never been more true than it is now in the digital era. :-(

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: huwevans]
      #699048 - 30/08/2008 14:58

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photographic technology has for years been driven more by fashion and fancy than by real photographic need




I will agree with that in principle, Huw, but make one addition - the rise and rise of the programmable microchip.

Essentially if it can be programmed in, it costs next to nothing so an additional "feature" is added in whether we need it or not!

I just look at the programmable options I have with the D300 and wonder if I really need even 10% of them.

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: PaulatUKcamera]
      #699071 - 30/08/2008 16:22

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Essentially if it can be programmed in, it costs next to nothing so an additional "feature" is added in whether we need it or not!




Even if the required controls make the device less usable, or more awkward to use, for its original purpose

Then the original purpose gets compromised to make the new facility work a bit better.

Function creep causes bloat, too. Which in turn boosts power draw. How many people have found their phone/cam/MP3 player has a flat battery when hey need to make an urgent/emergency phone call because the subsidiary functions have used the available power?

One tool, one job. Properly. No compromises.


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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: PaulatUKcamera]
      #699076 - 30/08/2008 16:42

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photographic technology has for years been driven more by fashion and fancy than by real photographic need




I will agree with that in principle, Huw, but make one addition - the rise and rise of the programmable microchip.




Well, fundamentally that's what has enabled it - the cramming of more and more electrickery into cameras began basically in the 80s, but in those days it was still just producing features that were genuinely useful for photographic purposes, at least for some.

But digital photography wouldn't exist at all without complex electronics and processing power - it's fundamentally about electronics, whereas previously photography was all about optics and photo-chemistry. While those days lasted photographic development was still being driven with photography in mind. Once it became electronic it entered the world of modern gadget-freakery - a world of iPods and Bluetooth, telephones that take pictures, and all the rest of it. That, I'm afraid brought a whole new group of consumers into play - a group that had little real interest in photography itself, but was pretty much obsessed with the gadgetry side of it. And they were so numerous that their requirements were the ones the manufacturers inevitably strove to meet.

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: huwevans]
      #699088 - 30/08/2008 18:16

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Well, fundamentally that's what has enabled it



Not really, the astronomers were using CCD chips to image stars in the days when microprocessors didn't exist, a PDP-11 was a large cabinet stuffed with TTL chips which contained a couple of dozen transistors each. Ran at a few score kilohertz and had 64KB memory if you were lucky.


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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: beejaybee]
      #699094 - 30/08/2008 18:27

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Feature set is the thing, Nikon have DV in the D90 and it can only continue to evolve.




Pah. A tool should do one job and one job only. And do it well.




Yeh - all you with Leathermans and Swiss army penknives - bin 'em now!

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: beejaybee]
      #699119 - 30/08/2008 19:42

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Quote:

Well, fundamentally that's what has enabled it



Not really, the astronomers were using CCD chips to image stars in the days when microprocessors didn't exist, a PDP-11 was a large cabinet stuffed with TTL chips which contained a couple of dozen transistors each. Ran at a few score kilohertz and had 64KB memory if you were lucky.




So - nothing whatsoever with we're talking about then? What I said was correct.

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: huwevans]
      #699129 - 30/08/2008 20:03

yawn - next subject

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: Mark101]
      #699150 - 30/08/2008 20:36

AAAAAaaaaargh! I can't take it anymore!!! All this Photokina stuff and competition is all too eeeeeevilll!! All these choices!!! AAaaaaaargh!
(jumps out throught the glass window with arms and legs flailing)

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: FujiSigmaNolta]
      #699154 - 30/08/2008 20:43

Hey Luis,

Here's one for you

RED

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: Iloca]
      #699575 - 31/08/2008 21:40

AAaaaaaaAAAAaaaaAAAArgh! (jumps out of hospital 3rd floor window in full body cast plaster trying to flail arms and with drip)

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Re: WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Samsung reveals new interchangeable lens system [Re: FujiSigmaNolta]
      #699577 - 31/08/2008 21:44

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AAaaaaaaAAAAaaaaAAAArgh! (jumps out of hospital 3rd floor window in full body cast plaster trying to flail arms and with drip)




Oh dear, maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it

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