William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Digital Image Studio" > Subject: Re: Thoughts on the digital format. Re: The JCO survey > > >> On 14/10/06, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> Then the legacy will be a register distance that was designed to >> accommodate 35mm FF image area and lenses that mos likely aren't >> optimal for the APS DSLR format. IE one big compromise. What I'm >> interested to see is how the manufacturers will sell the next gen >> cameras give than in all reality APS sized sensors are at 12MP IOW as >> dense as is practical WRT lens technology and minimum photo site size. >> Should be interesting. > > By rights, they should have introduced a whole new lens line with a > shorter register difference. I imagine that they both knew how that > would have gone over with the present user base, and didn't have the > financial resources to do it. > A compromise on several levels. > > William Robb >
An interesting idea would be to keep the mount, shorten the register and sell an AF extension tube for older lenses that makes up the difference. Best of both worlds. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
