Interesting mirrorless camera concept

By PR admin | Published: March 23, 2012

This Snima Iris mirrorless camera concept is designed by Vladimir Markov. Check out his website form more details. Here are few more images:

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  • Alfons

    Perfect!

    • Alfons

      Sharp edges on the left hand side and labels on the leatherette are only flaws I can come up with. Right buttons on the right places without anything too fancy and silly.

      • Mikles

        I don’t like the sharp edges either but why is the shutter release so far behind the dials. It looks awkward to me.

  • Bogdan

    If this would have been the latest Pentax (which looks horrible from my point of view) it would have sky rocketed the company,s income. Amazing design! Congrats!

    • matg

      Vladimir Markov gots nothing on MARC NEWSON!!

  • ennan

    Reminds me of an old russian half frame camera I have which has knobs and buttons on the side and the bottom of the camera. Shutter is on the front and tripod thread on the side. Bizzare thing.

    I like this design though -especialy the info displayed in the middle of those knobs.

  • http://www.xavierlhospice.com Xavier

    It reminds me the “Brick” by Argus in the 60′s

    http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Argus

  • Khufu

    Damn!!! Looks better than Pentax K-01…This is what K-01 should have been

    • wallis

      A house brick looks better than the K-01!

      • Khufu

        I really like the idea of having OLED screen inside the top dials
        Thats one thing mirrorless cameras are lacking
        No extra weight / size added

  • wallis

    Don’t just design it…. BUILD IT! That’s brilliant!

  • Nobody Special

    Hey Leica – you’ve heard of, “build it, and they will come.” Yes? Leica, what are you afraid of???

    It’s an awesome design – ergonomically speaking it seems that it would be a delight to use. How about this with a FF sensor?

    I like the utilitarian aspect to this design…

    • Nobody Special

      Check out his web site,,,,,,,

      Boy, once in a while someone really comes up with a winner – someone REALLY needs to produce a camera like this. It’s weird that so many camera companies just sty within a design ‘norm’ and rarely venture forth with anything that is done so well. It makes great sense.

  • Eric

    Looks awesome! Love the bottomleft focus selector. Wish there was an evf:(

    • Mizu

      “Wish there was an evf:(”

      Hey, there is it: top left.

      • Eric

        Hahha whoops ovfI

  • Stefan

    Yay you can never have too many knobs and dials :) It would be an interesting camera

  • pdc

    WOW!
    Not only the design, but the ideas he has for modular components.

  • simon

    jep looks great. nice lenses and maybe a little thinner or at least a few pancakes and that sure would be a great system.

    i really “hate” all those evf cameras with a slr design, the viewfinder should be where it is on a rangefinder!

  • Jordan

    I would buy this.

  • http://www.photo-now.com george

    AHEAD OF ITS TIME
    this needs to be built asap !
    any investors out there?

  • Camaman

    I dont see what so special about it. Mode dial seams dificult to use let alone see, screen is 4:3, which is only interesting if its multiaspect sensor.
    Body is square not very ergonomic.
    I dig the oleds in top buttons. That could happen in 10yrs…

  • Bill

    Wow! I hope some camera company exec sees this incredible design. Now I’m even more bitter over that horrible Pentax mirrorless. I was somewhat a Pentax fanboy but they’ve lost me. Now I’m looking seriously at the NEX 7 but only if they come out with some smaller lenses..

  • Robert Falconer

    Would be a brilliant execution for Leica’s forthcoming mirrorless camera.

    Either way, great design!

    • Nobody Special

      I agree 1000%. If Leica would just get it’s head out of it’s (their) arse’ maybe they would come up with an INNOVATIVE DESIGN like this.

      Large controls, tight efficient control layouts – grab it and everything fits in the hand where it should…….

  • Yuriy

    Very nice concept.

  • http://www.agniusdigital.com Agnius

    Looks good. However, I do not have best luck with EVF and manual focus lenses. Maybe with higher res viewfinder I would be more successful.

  • Joe

    I guess none of you here has shot with the NEX-7. This one looks very similar to the NEX-7 with less grip. The customization is cool, but it still needs to be a bit bigger with deeper grip. The NEX-7 is quite comfortable to hold, but a built-in grip is a big welcome.

  • CHD

    Somebody give this guy a job….brilliant.

  • totalreader

    if (YouHaveAGreatIdea = true and YouHaveNoGazpromMoney= true) then
    SuccessEnabled = false;
    if (YouStealAGreatIdea = true and YouHaveDirtyGazpromMoney= true) then
    SuccessEnabled = true;

    as always in Russia :(

  • krazzzzzzyyyyy

    inspired by the Nex-7, no doubt.

  • Peter

    WOW! I wish Pentax had hired this guy!

  • c.d.embrey

    Too bad that Fuji didn’t go with a design like this. Their new tech sensor deserved something better than faux rangefinder look and hybrid finder.

  • ISP

    WOW this is great ! I want one ! :)

  • http://twitter.com/#!/57thStIncident 57thStIncident

    Surprising, so many of these designer concepts get panned on this site. This one is cooler than average. The LCD inside the e-dial is kind of like the Pentax MZ-S.

    I guess that’s supposed to be a second tripod mount on the side — I think that’s generally a pretty decent idea but this one’s pretty close to those two dials. And that ‘Lock’ button on the mode dial doesn’t look like much of a button.

  • kabuki

    looks like the Mamiya 7…
    i want one :-)

  • http://twitter.com/#!/ZDP189 ZDP-189

    Somehow, I expected to find a hotshoe on the bottom

  • Thyl Engelhardt

    Amazing how every time someone comes up with a concept rather close to classic cameras, everybody starts to get excited. Maybe, the use of physical dials for setting aperture , speed and ISO wasn’t so wrong after all.

    After all, the main reason for removing those was cost reduction (and to a certain extent the need to incorporate further menu options for all the stuff that for markting reasons had to be incorporated into the camera software, like “art filters”, editing options, zillions of resolution and compression variants that nobody seems to use, and configuration options beyond belief to compensate for the mssing hardware).

  • Matt

    That looks atrocious. When will people stop desinging camera purely based on looks nad start looking into ergonomics? These hobby / freelance designers never seem to understand the purpose of a camera or the way they work. Heck, even looks-wise it looks like a Canon Powerhsot with a sawed off lens…

  • Molko

    That’s essentially a NEX7 design rip-off.

    Btw, it has the design of a battle tank! Is this to be advertised to tank people?!?

    Good rip-off job!

  • Nathan

    Poorly executed. There is a portrait orientation tripod mount that if used, will make both the mode dial and the viewfinder unusable. That’s the kind of thing that’s obvious to me on a 5 second look, that it did not occur to the designer is inexcusable. If this “designer” is a student, he is fortunate if he has 3-4 years remaining on his degree.
    If he’s in his final year, he needs to spend more time thinking and less time adding cool effects to his lens glass. Lenses aren’t made of green bottle glass anyway.

  • http://photoartbymark.zenfolio.com photoartbymark

    impressive

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