Rob Studdert mused: > > On 9 Mar 2005 at 17:01, P�l Jensen wrote: > > > Anyway, > > according to Pentax they will market a MF based DSLR (almost certainly with > > the > > 645 mount) withing a year (regardless of demand it seems!). This will be > > Pentax > > pro offering. Below it will be a k-mount prosumer body that might have a > > full > > frame sensor (depending on how you interpret the interview). > > So who here would potentially buy a partial frame MF DSLR over a full frame > 35mm DSLR? > > Would price or practicality or some other factor be the main director of your > decision? > > If you wouldn't buy a partial frame MF DSLR who do you suppose would? > > Do you think that this supposed course of action by Pentax is positive or > negative? > > I would be far more interested in the 35mm FF body for the record.
Forget this "partial frame" / "full frame" claptrap. The camera that would accept the 645/67 lenses would have a sensor at least as large as the sensor in any K-mount body. Not only that - the increased register distance (or, to be strictly accurate, the increase in distance from the film plane to the rear nodal point of the lens) means the camera would be less likely to exhibit chromatic aberration with wide-angle lenses. The people who would buy an MF-based DSLR are principally those people who already have a sizeable investment in Pentax MF glass. That's the one segment of the pro market where Pentax have been successful - they need to do something to protect their market.
