Now Nikon has secured a patent for a 10-600 mm lens to use in front of a 1" sensor according to various websites that cover camera and lens news. With the sensor zoom factor of 2.7 this will give a range that is comparable to 27-1620 mm lens on a full frame camera.

The 1" sensor is becoming more and more popular, with Nikon, Sony, Lumix, Samsung and Canon all using this sensor in more and more cameras every year. The latest of them the Canon powershot G3X.

There are some possibilities for Nikon to use this new lens patent to bring us much closer to the ultimate camera than has ever been possible before.
They could make a bridge camera with this lens and they could make a lens of this kind to use in the Nikon 1 lineup of cameras. Either way, we can now expect to get the lens many have been dreaming about, a lens that covers almost all the zoom range we ever dreamed of, a lens that we can use handheld with in camera or in lens 5 stop stabilizing, a lens that many of us never have to take off the camera, the all round travel lens, the sports and bif lens and a lens that we can put in front of a good in low light backlit sensor that is big enough to produce much better image quality than has been possible in the most popular bridge cameras so far.

And it is possible that this lens or a camera with it will be available soon, as this lens was already designed in 2013, but patent not secured until few days ago. So it is quite possible that we will see something very interesting from Nikon later this year based on this new lens patent.

What do you think about this? Anyone interested?

IMHO, the camera manufacturers are coming to the conclusion that the 1" sensor is the "Goldilocks" of the photography world, offering better image quality than can ever be obtained with the 1/2.3 size used in most point and shoot and bridge cameras, while at the same time, allowing for the use of smaller and lighter lenses than full frame, APS-C, or even micro 4/3 bodies would allow at the equivalent field of view. Time will tell if the buying public sees this as a viable compromise between cost, image quality, and convenience.

This sensor format is in my mind likely to push the 1.5 crop sensors away from the market.

The 1" format is also quite futuristic in many ways. I think it will be easy to increase the resolution up to at least 100 mpx in 1" sensors and I predict that will be done in the next 5 years or so.

Yes, there are many around here that have different views and think of this as flying pigs. Those people are probably part of the majority of people that still drive Ford A-model and never fly in a jet or use a pc or smartphone or other "flying pigs" from the past. Maybe they do not even use electricity as that was also a flying pig once. :lol: