The problem with large sensors like DX or FX, is the lenses will be correspondingly large also. This is where a sensor the size of 4/3rds comes in just nicely. However, even 4/4rds is really too large for the market segment this camera is aiming at.

A CX sensor, as I stated above, with corresponding mounting system, would fix this problem. Of course, it would require a complete range of lenses and they are not going to just appear out of thin air.

There have been a number of patents for this camera and their lenses appearing on the net lately. (ED. Unfortunately most of it is being plagiarized from this website without any acknowledgements or worse, being credited to those who are actually doing the plagiarizing.) Some interesting one’s have started to appear and it is again exciting times for the industry. The most interesting for me is the 18mm f1.8 (or f1.4) mm ‘standard’ lens (50mm film equiv).

There would be two other lenses I can see coming out along with this lens, a wide angle and a telephoto zoom. The wide angle will likely be in the range of a 3 or 4 times zoom starting at a film equivalent of 28. The telephoto zoom would be approx. an 80 to 300mm lens mm.

The only problem I’m having with it all,  is it’s all going to be proprietary to each manufacturer. Except of course the offerings from Panasonic and Olympus who are using the micro 4/3rds system. That means no swapping lenses with Olympus or Pentax.

I’ll reaffirm what I said previously in another post, the size of the sensor will likely have an film crop factor of x 2.77. That would make the sensor about the 13mm x 8.5mm size. That would make it approximately 3.5 times the surface area of the sensors used in todays compact cameras.

You can see why everyone is very keen to get their hands on a camera like this. Forget the Olympus Pen or the Panasonic GF-1, The Nikon ‘CX’ one will be the camera to beat. (ED: Let’s hope they really do call it a CX sensor, I feel rather chuffed about it. )