07-20-2015, 10:00 AM
Greetings.
Dou you think it would be possible to cram an APS-C-sized sensor, a moderate wide-angle and a genuine portrait telephoto into a compact the size of, at most, the Olympus XZ-1, or even slightly smaller?
It needn't (shouldn't?) be a zoom. It could be a multiple fixed focal length lens like a Leica Tri-Elmar.
Or a switching solution with two discrete lenses. Some old 35mm compact cameras had those. There was the Fuji DL-400 Tele (35mm f/3.5 and 70mm f/6.7) and the Ricoh TF-200 (38mm f/3.5 and 65mm f/6). They were too bulky for a shirt pocket and had it the wrong way around - while the wide-angle could be somewhat darkish, the tele would need to be bright, something like a 50mm f/1.8. But those old cameras had to light up a full 35mm frame.
Throw a focusing ring in there and I think you'd have something of an enthusiast's dream. I'd dump a grand on that in a heartbeat.
Dou you think it would be possible to cram an APS-C-sized sensor, a moderate wide-angle and a genuine portrait telephoto into a compact the size of, at most, the Olympus XZ-1, or even slightly smaller?
It needn't (shouldn't?) be a zoom. It could be a multiple fixed focal length lens like a Leica Tri-Elmar.
Or a switching solution with two discrete lenses. Some old 35mm compact cameras had those. There was the Fuji DL-400 Tele (35mm f/3.5 and 70mm f/6.7) and the Ricoh TF-200 (38mm f/3.5 and 65mm f/6). They were too bulky for a shirt pocket and had it the wrong way around - while the wide-angle could be somewhat darkish, the tele would need to be bright, something like a 50mm f/1.8. But those old cameras had to light up a full 35mm frame.
Throw a focusing ring in there and I think you'd have something of an enthusiast's dream. I'd dump a grand on that in a heartbeat.