Mike Johnston of Luminous Landscape talks about how he’s looking forward to the new Sony 8MP digital camera.
My main beef with digital SLRs is that too many compromises are made to integrate old lenses and traditional camera body styles. If you look at a high-end Nikon/Canon digital camera and the corresponding film cameras, they really almost identical to each other. If we are getting rid of the film, why not take the time/effort to build something new and better that takes into account the fact that there is no film? To me, the F828 is exciting for many reasons including the new CCD, the Compact Flash card slot, and the body style, which seems purpose-built for digital, not a carry-over from film.

But I have to report that I find myself much more strongly drawn to the new Sony F-828. Of all the digital cameras IÌve owned, used, held, or seen, the Sony F-717 (which I wrote about here) was, so far, the only one that IÌve placed in my personal pantheon of favorite cameras. It was nifty, fun, cool, and different.

Luminous Landscape SM–08-24
via Gizmodo