Recap of the Impress Japan interview with various camera manufacturers

• 12 years ago
• Categories: Canon, Fuji, Olympus, Pentax, Sigma, Sony

A Xitek forum member translated he key points from the Impress Japan interviews with various camera manufacturers about their future plans - see previous post about Olympus, Pentax and Nikon (Google translation):

Olympus

Olympus Imaging Marketing Division manager Ogawa Haruo topics: attention to the viewfinder of a single preparation of new micro-, E-5's successor is also made (see also this related article):

• is doing with the new Olympus features a single micro-
• lies in the form of the viewfinder
• E-5's successor models are developed

Canon

Canon Imaging Rong Tian Ya manager: 2012 to launch micro-single, but also a powerful and portable digital SLR camera:

• No anti-camera lens you really need to exchange
• can be without the anti-camera SLR and compact cameras
• The last year of high pixels to a high sensitivity

Sigma

Sigma Corporation President: being developed M43 mount lenses, Foveon in the APS-C format:

• DP series lineup will be expanded
• SD series of future development in the APS-C format
• will launch a micro-single-lens

Sony

Sony's Tian Hong: E research and discussion is a small lens mount, there will be a half-mirror camera (see a detailed translation here):

• NEX with a small lens
• Even if there is a million pixels is not surprising
• to manufacturers of electronic shutter will eventually be commercialized

Nikon

Nikon Imaging Marketing manager: D700's successor as the solution for high-pixel high-strength, D3 successor machine for high-speed sense:

• D3, D700's successor
• optimized for "high sense of high-power high-speed as the solution."
• optimize the use of a portable camera

Fujifilm

Fujifilm electronic image business Higuchi Minister Wu Subject: new single will use micro APS-C sensor, the power level will be exceeded as the solution of the whole site:

• the same with the X100 and X10, will take the high road to showdown
• AF speed is quite fast, and future plans are low-end models
• the level of force as the solution will exceed the full-size

Pentax

Pentax Ricoh Imaging Technology: study of 645 full-size and non-anti-air, the vision of the future rate of SLR models will be 100% (see detailed translation here):

• as long as the once high-definition experience will no longer go back
• The entry-level field of view would also like to be around 100%
• no anti-full-frame camera will take into account and 645

Ricoh

Ricoh's Tomohiro Nagano: boot speed, battery, solid and, as a tool of the GR will be more evolution:

• Pentax lens unit can be used
• The zoom lens of the GRD
• black and white photographs a dedicated compact camera

Does anyone have a better translation?