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. 🙂  

[MrSMW]

2 hours ago, stephen said:

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

I’m fortunate that I am all in with L Mount but currently 1 camera body short…

One of my S9 ‘B’ cams had an issue mid season and I worked around it with my EDC L10 for a few jobs and despite the quality of the output (it is the GH7 sensor after all!) it’s not suited for my needs.

That second S9 was going to cost more to fix than another used one, so I’ve re-purposed it as a photo camera for my daughter.

So a camera body short, season over, 6 months to the next one, just sold the L10, the gimbal and 3 lenses and twiddling my thumbs…

My ideal is a ZR/FX3 body with the ZR screen on the fully articulated mech of the S1Rii and ideally the sensor from the S1Rii and cheaper than the FX5.

Not asking for much then…😂

But seriously, the timing of this could be good for me as though I am considering a different photo camera, I would ideally keep it all in the same system for lenses and batteries and, well everything really.

I need either:

4 video units and 1 photo

or

3 video units and 2 hybrid (as I currently have less 1 defunct video unit)

So I am interested in either a more photo-orientated camera but in a more rangefinderesque body style à la ZR/FX3/FP, or a hybrid in this body style.

I don’t much care about the branding so it could be LUMIX, Sigma or DJI, or even Black Magic for photo, but ideally LUMIX for video as baking in my LUT is part of my workflow.

I don’t see BM making a stills-orientated camera and I’m not sure LUMIX are going to pop out an FX3 style body just yet so most likely a new Sigma or DJI and of the two, maybe DJI most likely as it has been rumoured for a while?

It will be interesting at the very least to see if it meets my needs, but if not, I’ve already got my options planned…

I’m going to guess in most likely order:

1. DJI

2. Sigma

3. LUMIX

4. Black Magic

5. Leica