Well good on 'em :t: for havin' a go anysways - close but no cigar :smoke: (yet! - call back after 2020 or so) :flowers:
One thing I will applaud though, is the serious efforts at weight reduction with this iteration.
Has anyone taken a serious squizz at the sensor size though? ....... it's tiny (c~ mobile phone /compact camera types) :eek!:
Even the latest fandangled hifalutin DSLR's can reach limitations (noise, moire, AF loss) in low light work, and these are nowhere near that (kinda like a blind man tryin' to find a black labrador at midnight on a moonless night!) |8)|
I'm not entirely convinced there's any great first mover advantage to pioneering this stuff, but it does meld nicely with Sony's core business, and keep hundreds and hundreds of engineers off the streets ..... :king:
. One beautifully elegant part of the equation though, is that so far IC's have kept pace with Moore's Law, and are on track to do so for the near future, and that's a significant cost-down driver, so the 'picture' long term looks good. B
. Though, I'm sure the multifunctionality of the device will be a bigger hit with whippersnapper digital natives than with optical connoisseur's at this juncture .......
The human eye resolution question is an area of active research, but around that 5MP mark as suggested by Sun seems to be the thinking so far, although you'd need to factor in colours (the best displays are using Red, Green, Blue, White, and even Black array combo's), so it could go anything up to 25MP or more (I have read of 50? - nobody really knows yet) - the best 'commercial' EVF display I'm aware of so far, is ~ 5MP
http://www.imaging-resource.com/new...ear-the-optical-viewfinders-days-are-numbered , so quite a ways to go yet, and that's to say nothing of refresh frequency, response times (lag), dynamic range, contrast, colour faithfulness etc. :-C
However Pomp (I know you're watching!) :-O the distant day they do exceed all optical, and human resolution and vision capabilities, then sign me up - the myriad potential advantages are too compelling (zoom, night vision, contrast enhancement, video, photo, spectrum tweaking, 3D rendering, IS, etc, etc, etc ..... pretty much add whatever you want - though I think you'll still have to make your own cup of tea!), but I'm sure there'll always be a place on my optical mantle for some
"pure optical" alpha's - even if it is only for when the batteries go flat!
Chosun :gh: