New L Mount Camera coming next week…

[MrSMW]

…according to the smoke signals coming from the Dolomites.

It isn’t the successor to the S1H, but what remains to be seen…

Options:

A. A bit too soon for an S9II surely?

B. A photo-oriented version though maybe?

C. A new Sigma, next gen FP/L? With a faster sensor, tilt screen and IBIS, that would be ossum.

D. A Leica ‘Q3’ with interchangeable lens mount?

E. DJI enters the arena with a non gimbal, non flying camera?

Speculate below!

[stephen]

According to the rumor the L mount camera that will appear this year will be a Sony FX5 competitor. IMHO this camera will come from Panasonic or Blackmagic. Most likely Panasonic as it already has the Nikon Zr, Z6 III sensor in Panasonic S1 II and proved it can get better IQ than Nikon. Plus it has all the exposure tools already available. It seems logical Panasonic to try its luck with FX3/5, Nikon Zr type of camera.

The game changing camera will come next year. Until we know what is game changing we can only speculate. Here is my take: Sensors come from 2 companies - Sony and Canon. Canon keeps their sensors for themselves so in practice it is only one company - Sony. It already showed their best sensor in  FX5/A7R VI. So we have 2 options left:

    A. Sigma or Panasonic come with a new type of sensor: Sigma Foveon or Panasonic Organic. IMHO very unlikely in both cases.

    B. DJI which so far has proven to think and create out of the (Japanese camera tradition) box can come with something interesting. Recently I've leaned that DJI developed electronically controlled ND filter for Mavic 4 Pro which is not yet officially announced but already is selling on ebay and amazon by unknown Chinese sources:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHt0OaxKu4E 
    
    While not perfect it shows DJI has the potential to come with a camera that solves the ND problem for mirrorless cameras. DJI can come also with better price and user interface both of which company already proved is capable of.

Current and previous generation of mirrorless cameras are great so I doubt any of those can tempt me to go back to L Mount. It so good to forget for a while about cameras and lenses and just go and shoot something. 🙂