08-18-2010, 06:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-18-2010, 06:44 PM by Brightcolours.)
[quote name='mst' timestamp='1282156322' post='1893']
I guess it's quite a bit more than just 2 mm. The sensor does not start exactly where the mirror ends today, there's some space, the shutter, then the sensor and some electronics and finally some amount of body/case material.
The sensor plane is marked on both the D3x and the D200 (sorry, not much else here to check), it's roughly 2 cm from the sensor plane to the back of the camera with the D3x and still around 1 cm with the D200.
I agree, though, there's not too much space to gain, yes. Plus, of course the size of the lenses would remain unchanged. But they all would fit.
I think EVFs will improve vastly over the next few years. That's probably the next big thing.
With a good EVF, a MF screen would no longer be required. And metering works pretty well on all micro cameras, at least on the G1 I own. Heat is no issue here, either, at least for "normal" use. I don't use it for astro photography or several minutes exposures.
-- Markus
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The G1 has a small sensor though... the biggest heat issues can currently be seen with the Nikon full frame cameras, which have 4x the sensor size.
But also the APS-C cameras from Nikon and Canon have limited duration of live view and video due to heat generation.
I guess it's quite a bit more than just 2 mm. The sensor does not start exactly where the mirror ends today, there's some space, the shutter, then the sensor and some electronics and finally some amount of body/case material.
The sensor plane is marked on both the D3x and the D200 (sorry, not much else here to check), it's roughly 2 cm from the sensor plane to the back of the camera with the D3x and still around 1 cm with the D200.
I agree, though, there's not too much space to gain, yes. Plus, of course the size of the lenses would remain unchanged. But they all would fit.
I think EVFs will improve vastly over the next few years. That's probably the next big thing.
With a good EVF, a MF screen would no longer be required. And metering works pretty well on all micro cameras, at least on the G1 I own. Heat is no issue here, either, at least for "normal" use. I don't use it for astro photography or several minutes exposures.
-- Markus
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The G1 has a small sensor though... the biggest heat issues can currently be seen with the Nikon full frame cameras, which have 4x the sensor size.
But also the APS-C cameras from Nikon and Canon have limited duration of live view and video due to heat generation.