Tuesday, December 22, 2009

THE 2.0 DIGITAL CAMERA

THE 2.0 DIGITAL CAMERA, article.
"I wonder why Nikon, Canon and Leica just keep on putting a digital sensor into film-camera bodies they designed in the Fifties. And why at Leica ... can not try and invent something like they did in 1925 when the 2.0 film camera was introduced, the Model A.
IMHO Micro 4/3 can really be considered as the Third-Millennium Leica (whereas M8 and M9 can not)."

2 comments:

Bruce said...

Interesting article. I do like the direction that Panasonic and Olympus are pushing the camera industry. Panasonic in particular has been the leader in bringing small, wide angle, and optical image stabilization to the mainstream.

I don't think micro 4/3rds is digital camera 2.0 though. I'll go with 1.5, but not 2.0.

What every digital camera lacks is open firmware. When camera users can tweak the firmware any way they want to, that will be Digital Camera 2.0.

There are many reasons why this hasn't happened yet, but I think eventually it will.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

I do agree that M4/3 is more of an evolution than a revolution.

I think we can't know what the revolution will be, that's why it's a revolution. Nobody expects the revolution, or the Spanish Inquisition.