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Ricoh off their rocker?

  • Alan Rossiter
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    A camera with an interchangable lens/sensor/processor unit?

    http://www.photographyblog.com/news/ricoh_gxr/

    Alan.

    jb7
    Participant

    I couldn’t get through all that-

    Do I want it?

    Alan Rossiter
    Participant

    No, you don’t. As far as I can see the advantage being you don’t get dust on your sensor when changing lenses as it’s a sealed unit. But the prices aren’t too bad…comparative to Leica as Ricoh seem to be subtly trying to emulate.

    I can’t see any other real advantages to it.

    Alan.

    Piotr M
    Member

    Quite interesting, but… Very expensive. As a matter of fact, only macro module seems to be really interesting thanks to APS-C sensor. The 24-70 (S10 module) utilizes 1/1.7 sensor which is rubbish. That is weird.
    This stuff is not a competition for micro 4/3.
    It is nice to keep the sensor clean, but it makes the whole play too expensive. I see no future for this system.
    The ultra-sound shaking is much cheaper and very efficient.

    BM
    Participant

    This was a theory deployed during the early days of PCs – a “shell” PC which could be upgraded easily when technology advanced. The problem was that the technology did not change in discrete units – e.g. when teh main processing chip upgraded, there was also teh need to upgrade other circuitry. So teh upgrade path was quite short.

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