08-18-2010, 06:22 PM
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I thought your idea was to make a camera capable of use existing lenses on a thinner system (use the mirror to move the distance requirement from lens to sensor from a horizontal one to a vertical one).
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Yep. However, a hybrid AF system, as it has been introduced by Fujifilm with the F300EXR for example, could help to further reduce the body size.
If you rely on classic phase detection, you'd need a secondary mirror and the AF sensors themselves (probably on the other side of the sensor, in the bottom of the camera). Putting the AF sensors right into the image sensor would allow for a mechanically more simple solution, while on the other hand offering the potential to increase the precision of the AF, because the sensors are right where the image is.
The question is, if the precision of Fuji's solution is sufficient for DSLRs. The sensor base might be too small for this, but I guess this could be worked out.
-- Markus
I thought your idea was to make a camera capable of use existing lenses on a thinner system (use the mirror to move the distance requirement from lens to sensor from a horizontal one to a vertical one).
[/quote]
Yep. However, a hybrid AF system, as it has been introduced by Fujifilm with the F300EXR for example, could help to further reduce the body size.
If you rely on classic phase detection, you'd need a secondary mirror and the AF sensors themselves (probably on the other side of the sensor, in the bottom of the camera). Putting the AF sensors right into the image sensor would allow for a mechanically more simple solution, while on the other hand offering the potential to increase the precision of the AF, because the sensors are right where the image is.
The question is, if the precision of Fuji's solution is sufficient for DSLRs. The sensor base might be too small for this, but I guess this could be worked out.
-- Markus
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