On Monday 7 Panasonic will have an official press conference at 10am Las Vegas time. And today Panasonic USA sent out this newsletter to confirm the “presence” of the S1-S1R cameras. Still unclear if it means full specs and preorder price will be unveiled right there.
Our trusted sources confirmed to us that Panasonic is organizing a major press events for the last eek of January! Panasonic has invited all big store dealers and journalists in location in USA, Europe and Asia.
I am yet not 100% sure but I am pretty confident Panasonic will use that event to finally launch the S1-S1R with full specs and preorders. Stay tuned on L-rumors!
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We heard from a reliable source that more (or full) Panasonic S1-S1R specs will be shared in January. Shipment of the camera is rumored to start as early as in March.
Sigma promised us to deliver a new L-mount camera with Full Frame Foveon sensor And this new Sigma patent explains how this sensor might work
Instead of three layers of pixels the sensor would only use two of them With green pixels always present and the second layer alternating between red and blue pixels. Sigma says in the patent that this would allow the sensor readout time to be much faster. Guess it makes sense to have this on a large FF sensor!
via hi-lows-note
Back in September we already told you that we have been told the camera will cost around $4,000. Also sources at Sankei confirmed the price could be around 500,000 yen which is close to $4,500. I hope the final price will be lower as I know the $4,000 price tag wasn’t a done deal.
Sensor 1:
60MP
16 channels (which is crazy, normally it should be 8),
4.6FPS@16bit
12FPS@14bit
8k30P@12bit
8K60p@10bit
4k60p@12bit
FHD300P@10bit–Sensor 2:36MP
10FPS@16bit
60FPS@10bit
on-chip PDAF
Panasonic is rumored to announce the full specs in January. Preorder should open in January too with first shipment in March. Still no info about the possible price but the S1R might cost closer to $4,000 than $3,000 🙁
