[LRflex] Re: Gear: Fuji x100 Info
- From: Richard Ward <ilovaussiesheps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:59:03 -0500
Hi Andy,
I may be mistaken, but you appear to be pulling a 'richard' - ie:
I'm getting a bit of a reputation for misreading/misunderstanding the
gist of posts on the list!
The 'viewfinder' of these new Sony's is entirely and completely
Electronic. All the Mirror is 'used for' is to give the AutoFocus
Sensor Array information to process. Since SLR AF Technology is
decades ahead of 'image sensor' based AF Systems it gives Sony a Huge
Leg Up on DSLR's shooting video competitors. Especially true is when
it comes to focus tracking with moving subjects - Michael Reichman
over at Luminous Landscape posted a Video of a Rodeo Rider that is
utterly impossible to be shot with -for instance- a Canon 5DmkII
without some serious follow focus skills, cuz the 'imaging sensor'
based AF wouldn't stand a chance.
I'm not arguing for or against Pellicle Mirrors, just describing it.
The Good & The Bad. Information is sometimes just imformation. :-)
Richard in Michigan
On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Andy Wagner wrote:
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> Regards
> YXAndy
>
>
>
> ________________________________
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> You said
>
> and this mirror passes 90 some percent of the light
> through to the sensor and the remainder is reflected to the AF sensors
> so it maintains high quality AF continuously.
>
> Here is the first issue with this idea If <10% is going to the
> viewfinder we are
> right back to the rebel finder very dark.
>
> It's an especially large
> leap forward for having good autofocus while shooting video -
> supposedly miles ahead of imaging sensor based autofocus.
>
> Is it really that big of a leap? remember the Canon pelical back in
> the 70's or
> so. As far as video the old movie cameras worked on the same idea.
>
>
>
> This new
> sony was named Popular Photography's Camera of The Year. While my
> thoughts on the magazine itself have grown a bit sour,
>
>
> Figures that they would
>
>
> Richard in Michigan
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 3:16 AM, Bille Xavier F. wrote:
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>> Rchard,
>>
>> Thanks for passing over this post.
>>
>> Indeed, this type of viewfinder is probably the future of the Reflex
>> cameras. Of course, I cannot foresee how this would be added to a
>> pentaprism but I did not imagined that the Fuji X100 would exist a
>> day.
>>
>> If the piggy bank feels right, I might bleed it a little like the
>> Masai of Kenya with their Zebu cows
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>> Xavier F. BILLE
>> Maisons-Alfort - France.
>>
>>
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