AF105 and Lens workability? // fotodiox for DX lenses?

[MoGorjestani]

So the AF105 or whatever their gonna call it looks fantastical. I'm curious if anyone has any comments/answers regarding a few things.

1. will the camera come with an option to have a nikon or canon mount? if not, how much will it run us to put the adapter on?

2. will it be similar to the DOF adapters and we can only use AF or AIS lenses?

3. will this be the end of the hvx and hpx? or will there still be a desire for those cameras? I dont think keeping them just for the sake of the servo zoom capability is a good enough reason.

4. my initial thinking is that only AF or AIS lenses can be used. Which then makes me think of getting a canon mount for the AF105 and then using a fotodiox to connect a DX lens to the camera and allow the fotodiox to let me use my G/DX lenses. Ideally it be nice to use my 11-16tokina (nikon mount) 24, 35, 50 and 85 ni kon AF lenses on this badbody.

lastly, Im pretty sure we will not have 24PN or 30PN options...any feelings towards that folks? I have always had the feeling that shooting PN gives a more cinematic frame rate feel, this is an opinion and im sure many disagree. but how do you feel about no PN option?

PS. i really hope this camera comes out under $6,000 especially since Jan mentioned in a video that it would be under $6,000 last year. And she wasnt saying it as if she didnt know or was guessing, she seemed very certain about that. In that sense I hope panasonic "keeps their word"

[Vitaliy Kiselev]

1. Such adapters for m43 are now available at ebay for $24-40 each shipped (for most mounts).
2. It is just adapter, any manual lense can be used.
3. No. It'll sell in much smaller quantities compared to HVX.
4. Nikon G adapters are also available, something like $24-35 at ebay.

And you can ask Barry about native modes. Camera is in unfinished state today.

As for price, it'll quickly fall to $4000 or even $3000.

[Barry_Green]

3. - that's up to the customers. They'll keep selling the HVX and HPX as long as people keep buying them. To wit - the DVX100B is still available today, as a current model, and keeps selling. As to whether the HPX170 will outsell the AF100, or the AF100 outsells the HPX170, only time will tell.

On adapters -- Birger is working on an electronic adapter, which may allow full iris setting, auto-iris, autofocus and optical image stabilization (if the lens provides those functions, of course). No announcement yet, we don't know what they will actually produce and what features they will support, but they're working on something and should be announcing within about a month.

On PN: 1080/24p native recording, with the capability to do overcranking and undercranking upt to 60fps. So it has all the pN you could want.

On price - Jan has reaffirmed that it will "definitely" be under $6k.