Henri Toivonen wrote:
Gonz wrote:
alex wetmore wrote:
Yes, but that assumes that film is going to be important in the future. It seems less and less important every day (at least 35mm). I would guess this is a move for a future body rather than a historical body.On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Gonz wrote:
Bruce Dayton wrote:
I have to say that I consider it great news. Choosing to support full frame, aperture ring and on top of that, picking some primes speaks very positively. These represent to me that they are looking beyond the first time buyer and trying to provide for more serious photogs.
The aperture ring is puzzling. Does this mean that they are going to
make a digital body that supports the old aperture linkage again? I
tend to doubt if they did this to support old bodies, which are all
film. A DSLR with full backwards support would almost imply a super-D,
not a baby-D. Of course they may have also have gotten so much flak for
not making the *istD fully compatible with older lenses that they did an
about face. We've already seen them try to alleviate that with the
firmware fix that gives partial functionality back.
These aren't reduced image circle lenses, so they are also useable on Pentax film cameras. Since the MZ-S doesn't have body control of aperture it makes sense to put an aperture ring back onto the lens.
rg
So you are assuming that the sensors aren't getting larger than the current APS-sized ones?
Not at all. Just making a comment about the MZ-S comment. I think full size sensors will *eventually* make their way into Pentax's & other vendor's lineups (aside from Canon and Kodak). But, I have argued in the past, as have some other folks, that the economies of scale and craming more stuff into the same chip area do not apply to camera sensor chips. Its a matter of the cost of a basic chunk of silicon real-estate. Full size sensor chips just cost a heck of alot more because its size creates much higher probabilities of defects. The basic cost of a sq mm of silicon has not changed much, whereas the basic cost of a single transistor has pretty much followed Moore's law. This all means that APS sized sensors are going to be here for a long time, but what Pentax seems to be doing is covering all its bases.
rg
/Henri
