On 5/27/09, Nick Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Uh oh, watch out! > > Anyway. > > I seem to recall something recently about a Pentax patent detailing a > lens mount with two bayonets. > > And now we have Pentax maybe putting full-frame 35mm digital lenses > back in their roadmap. > > So I was thinking, would it be possible that the new Pentax 645 has a > mount that allows you to attach both 645 and 35mm FF lenses without an > adaptor? > > And then I thought, the camera could automatically sense which kind of > lens was on the camera. If a 645 lens was attached the sensor was in > "645 mode" but if a 35mm lens was attached then it reduced itself to a > 24x35mm frame and appropriate resolution. > > Would that be possible? Surely it would be. The better question would > be, is it feasible?
I think that once you got the 35mm lens at the right distance from the sensor, you'd run into problems with the mirror hitting the rear element. -- Scott Loveless Cigarette-free since December 14th, 2008 http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

