Can you do in-body shake reduction with larger sensors? I doubt the N or C would put it in the body anyway. They make too much money on the lenses and have spent too much time telling everyone that it's better when it's in the lens.
gs George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:27 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure how much scaling up would be required the hypothetical FF > Pentax would require for a FF mirror box. If you compare a *ist-D and a > *ist-Ds and an ZX/MZ-5n, you'll find that the *ist-D has the same size > mirror box as the ZX/MZ camera and the *ist-Ds camera has a mirror box and > mirror more in keeping with an APS-C sensor. Yet it isn't appreciably > smaller for that, the volume just seems to be distributed differently. Now > the shake reduction system might require a slightly different form factor, > but then again it might not. > > > On 7/17/2013 5:18 PM, John wrote: >> >> I ran across this in a discussion thread in DPReview comparing the Nikon >> D600 to the Nikon D7100. >> >> I've mentioned here before that I've been looking closely at the Nikon >> D600 and consider its specifications to be a minimum starting point for >> what any Pentax FF must offer. Still, it has some shortcomings from my >> point of view (beyond Nikon having put their IS in the lenses). >> >> Someone mentioned the D7100 as an example of what a Pentax K5II >> follow-on camera would need to be, so I took a look at its specs on >> DPReview and it seems to have fixed every concern I had about the D600 >> (other than IS which I understand ain't gonna' happen). >> >> http://www.falklumo.com/lumolabs/articles/equivalence/ff.html >> >> Semi-OT because the author bases his design of a hypothetical compact FF >> Nikon "D800c" on scaling up the the Pentax K5 body to fit in a FF sensor >> & mirror box. >> >> The rest of the article doesn't matter all that much, but I thought it >> was interesting for the suggestion that Nikon should be taking design >> cues from Pentax. >> > > > -- > There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard drive > failure, and those that will. > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
