----- Original Message ----- From: Alin Flaider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A new DSLR standard emerging? (WAS: Re: Nikon DX lenses: Is this what Pentax is up to?)
> I don't feel that moving to a lower sensor size has anything to do > with maintaining a SLR system, which is the whole point with > preserving the current 35mm lens mount. > Few of the existing 35mm lenses (and most of us have quite a few) > will be of any use for their intended purpose - focal ranges will > shift, special qualities will be lessened. I can't see what I might > do with half of my lenses mounted on an "APS" sensor camera. I'll > have to drop them entirely and have it replaced with "APS" lenses > that fit the original bill. Then I'll end up with 2 different > systems, one for film and the other one for digital, so where's the > point in staying with Pentax after all? > > Don't tell me that some specialized photography like sports will > benefit - I couldn't care less. Most of us came to build well > balanced, optimized systems that fill their needs - breaking it will > destroy the very idea of system. Pentax might as well come up with > another mount. No difference here from the Olympus four thirds > proposition. At least they were outspoken from the very beginning. Here, though, is the conundrum. For me to move to a digital SLR, I would find it preferable to have backwards compatability with the 30 or so lenses I already own, whether or not the chip size causes an effective shft in focal range. I can live with that, I don't really see it as that big an issue. I can live with buying a few more short focal lenghts, or perhaps a short focal length zoom to get the wide angles, but I won't happily repurchase 30 lenses. I would much rather learn to shift focal lengths, use my 35mm f/2 as a standard, my 50mm f/1.4 as a portrait, etc. Perhaps this is my pro background showing, perhaps just pragmatism. William Robb
