This rumor is coming form a Chinese forum (via Ricehigh) : the expected Ricoh’s EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder with Interchangeable Lens) camera may have a “slide-in” interchangeable lens mount system and not a k-mount like previous speculated. This idea is not new and has been discussed before on dpreview.
There is also a patent granted to Ricoh a while back “where lenses were split into two parts – basically the lens elements in one and the iris part in another. The iris part was then built on the camera body as a fixed part. The interchangeable bit was only the lens and presumably the focus mechanism only” (source).
Two weeks ago, during the Paris’s Photography Show, Ricoh representative said (source): “We are going to issue a small interchangeable lens system instead. It will have a APS-C sized type sensor…. It will be as small as the GX.”
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Hm…. bit weird, but could be nice
(looks like Sony won’t catch up the “Evil” name first)
it’s gonna be interesting…. are we looking at a sigma dp1 and dp2 killer?
or maybe a match to the pen and gf1?
Nice rumors ! im so impatient