wvil - a revolution?

[joemikel1]

<p>I´m just amazed. If it´s true, then I´ll have to rethink about gear.....<br>

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<a href="http://www.artefactgroup.com/wvil/">http://www.artefactgroup.com/wvil/</a></p>

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[starvy]

<p>Fun concept. Although I have to say that the majority of phone users would still struggle if the facebook photos are anything to judge by. People value the drunken moment more than colourcast, depth of field and all that.<br>

It would be of much interest to the amateur enthusiasts though.</p>

[joemikel1]

<p>31.6 MP FF sensor, using any of your lenses (canon, nikon, 4/3 micro, and leica M), with a wireless between the lens and the body, wich is a smartphone, is something more than what a phone user can expect.....</p>

 

[Mike Howard]

<p>Well, it is obviously a hoax, so we'll have to stick with our current gear for now, I'm afraid. There are MANY obvious telltales, too many to mention, really. Look carefully at the specs on the second site you linked, some of the specs are against the laws of physics, and comically so.</p>

[joemikel1]

<p>Yes I also think this must be a hoax....but if it´s true, I want one.</p>

[joseph_wisniewski]

<p>It's not a "hoax", it's a "design concept". That means sculpted out of clay or hogged out a block of solid aluminum or plastic on a milling machine. That's what the people who did this do, industrial design. They show you what stuff should look like, it's up to someone else to make it work. This is one that they did for themselves, had they done it for a customer, the customer would have provided specs for the electronics.</p>

<p>A hoax would require that the people doing it had some idea of why their concept wouldn't work or why their numbers were so wrong.</p>

[joshroot]

<p>Well the website clearly says:</p>

 

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<p>Congratulations, you’ve found the WVIL website.<br />As you’ve most likely figured out, the WVIL camera is not a real product, but a <a href="http://www.artefactgroup.com/#/content/camera-futura-3/" target="_blank">Concept Camera</a> envisioned by Artefact's award-winning design team. It answers the question: “what’s next for camera design?”</p>

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[bueh]

<p>Yeah, as if a universal lens mount (Nikon F, Canon EF, Micro Four Thirds and Leica M -- please! M43 will not even work with full-frame...) is in the foreseeable future.</p>

[Mike Howard]

<p>That's one of my points, a m4/3's lens image circle is too small, so physically can't work. They call it a concept, more like wishful thinking.</p>

[joseph_wisniewski]

<p>Nikon FF cameras automatically use a crop appropriate for the lens's image circle when you use one of their "DX" reduced image circle lenses.</p>

[joseph_wisniewski]

<p>And don't forget the monochrome version, the "Black&white Optimized Wireless Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens"</p>

<p>Bowvil!</p>