You guys better stop picking on Antonio, now. He sued his parents and had
them thrown in jail.
Tom C.
From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DA14mm - why so large and heavy?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 06:30:17 -0600
I was going to comment on this, but I commented on it last month when
it came up.
Maybe when it comes up next month it can be my turn?
Anyway, I have a 6x7 adaptor for my view camera that turns my 65mm
lens into a ......
65mm lens.
It turns my 90mm lens into a 90mm lens, my 150mm lens into a 150mm
lens, and finally, it even changes my 210mm lens into a ......
210mm lens.
What is even more startling, is when I put my 6x7- K mount adaptor
onto my LX, all my 6x7 lenses get changed into exactly the same focal
lengths that are listed on the lens bezels, and to make matters even
more confusing, if I mount it on the istD, my 6x7 lenses are still,
frustratingly enough, the same focal length as what the manufacturer
claims them to be.
All this is so confusing, I think I feel my brain leaking out my ear.
William Robb
----- Original Message -----
From: "graywolf"
Subject: Re: DA14mm - why so large and heavy?
> That is kind of silly, you could just crop an APS size section of
the FF image
> and get the same effect. Or you could take your 35mm put an aps
size mask in it
> and say all your lenses were 1.5 times as long. Why not mask down
to 6mmx9mm and
> call your 50/1.4 a 200/1.4?
>
> Hey, what an idea, I think I will mask down my 4x5 and then my
semi-wideangle
> lens would be a telephoto. Oh, I don't have to do that, I can just
use a roll
> film back that does the same thing? What, you say I could have done
that back in
> the 1930's? Gee, I thought all this BS was a brand new idea? Then
there was the
> Rolleikin adaptor for the Rolleiflexes that let you use 35mm film
in them. Funny
> thing is, no one thought their lenses got longer when they did that
back then.
> People must have just been smarter in the old days. Nowadays,
suckers believe
> anything the advertising guys say.
>
> --
>
> Nenad Djurdjevic wrote:
> >
> > Quite right. That is why when a (Pentax) Full Frame digital body
comes out
> > I would ideally like to keep the *istD. That way I can use it
for telephoto
> > shots and the FF body for wide angle.
>
> --
> graywolf
> http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html
>
>
>
