Re: Question for all of you gear-heads

[Peter J. Alling]

Pentax already makes an adapter to use MF, both 645 and 67, lenses on 
their 35mm products.  The trick is to make the lenses fully couple with 
the new body.
The flange to sensor distance is much greater on the medium format cameras.

Butch Black wrote:
Hi
The thread about the MF based Pentax DSLR got me thinking, (always a 
dangerous proposition)

First, the question. If building a body for use with Pentax MF lenses, 
would the flange to sensor distance be the same as the flange to film 
distance in the film cameras?

If so, wouldn't it be possible to design a body marginally larger then 
the ist-D using either a FF 35mm sized sensor or Kodak's 40x40mm 
sensor with adapters for 67, 645 and 35mm lenses. Maybe even using a 
hypersonic motor in the adapters to provide autofocusing  for the 645 
and 35mm AF lenses.

HEY PENTAX. If you're reading this list and use this Idea, you owe me 
one of them for the idea :)

Butch


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