Rumors New Lumix camera(s) on May 13th?

[cascadian]

That thought seems reasonable to me. So many times another factor should rule, such as color or texture - yet we go 200% in search of a few misaligned or off-focus pixels. And the atmosphere can make waves in any focal length under the right/wrong conditions.

If my eyes were sharp enough to see what so many users find disastrous, I'd probably never want a zoom lens again. I'd also get worse at tuning them out, so I shall keep my eyes as they are, give or take my reading glasses.

 

[dirk]

This discussion with 36MP on the Nikon D800 was at a time, when most people shot still with a shutterspeed of 1/125s and the D800 had a mirror. This does not work, if you want to have really sharp images.

Nowadays we have mirrorless cameras witz sophisticated antishake systems and in most sports you use shutterspeeds between 1/1000s and 1/2000s. This is a totally different scenario.

I remember in the analog times tests which showed that you could get the best images with a Leica M6 and a Leica 90mm portrait lens for portrait (on film) with at least 1/500s. The differences were easy visible.

 

[dirk]

It seems that th S1II/S1IIe are around 80g lighter than the S1RII. Not a big difference, but I am paranoid with weight.

EVF, tilting screen, fps and AF seems to be the same, which is more important for me. Let's see what kind of new infomation the event will bring ...

 

[Jonathan-Mac]

It seems that the S1II/S1IIe are around 80g lighter than the S1RII. Not a big difference, but I am paranoid with weight.

EVF, tilting screen, fps and AF seems to be the same, which is more important for me. Let's see what kind of new information the event will bring ...

I wonder what would make them 80g lighter - I don't think the sensors have different weights.

As for the D800, those of us in Pentax-land were saying "Hello!! You need IBIS!!"

 

[dirk]

I wonder what would make them 80g lighter - I don't think the sensors have different weights.

Maybe cooling system?

 

[GeorgeHudetz]

The S1RII doesn't have DR boost. It only has DR Expansion.
Off course it would be exciting if it would be in the S1RII, but it isn't.

Edit: I just realized my typo. I meant S1II, not S1Rii. Sorry.

So, in the DPR review of the S1II, they say that it's DR Boost is "not comparable" to what is in the GH7 (i.e., dual-path), although they don't yet know what it is. They do comment that there is a significant rolling shutter impact when it is engaged.

I do wonder how much of a difference one would see when going from "14+" to 15 stops of DR. I know that there was lots of thrashing about on the L-mount forum on DPR about the 11.08 stops of PDR (photons to photos) for the S1RII compared to the 11.63 of the Sony a7RV. However, when I downloaded very dark raws from both cameras from the DPR comparison tool, and pushed them 6 stops in Capture One, it was very difficult to spot a difference. So I'm not sure it's that important when both camera have such a high DR overall.

But perhaps in video it is more important?

 

[Quentinquirelino]

So, in the DPR review of the S1II, they say that it's DR Boost is "not comparable" to what is in the GH7 (i.e., dual-path), although they don't yet know what it is. They do comment that there is a significant rolling shutter impact when it is engaged.

Judging by the rolling shutter measurements of Gerald Undone, it's very much comparable to what the GH7 does. It doubles the rolling shutter because it reads out twice. But in the S1II it seems to only work in video mode. But the S1II seems to have decent DR in photo mode never the less.

I do wonder how much of a difference one would see when going from "14+" to 15 stops of DR. I know that there was lots of thrashing about on the L-mount forum on DPR about the 11.08 stops of PDR (photons to photos) for the S1RII compared to the 11.63 of the Sony a7RV. However, when I downloaded very dark raws from both cameras from the DPR comparison tool, and pushed them 6 stops in Capture One, it was very difficult to spot a difference. So I'm not sure it's that important when both camera have such a high DR overall.

But perhaps in video it is more important?

Yes, I think it's more important in video.