Could an MF lens design be translated into an AF lens? And would the lens mount need changing for AF in a way that would render it unusable for the old lenses?
I don't know, but a serious investment in design and production would be required for Pentax to bring this to market unless they could re-use a lot of stuff. Would blow Olympus ideas out of the water though! > -----Original Message----- > From: Sylwester Pietrzyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 December 2003 18:21 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: New Pentax film SLR! > > > on 04.12.03 19:05, Rob Brigham at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This has been subject of speculation for some time. I think the > > lenses are only MF though arent they? Otherwise (and > perhaps anyway) > > they would be onto a winner with that one. > Yep! They were NF only. But they could do 110 DSLR with new > AF lenses, backward compatible with older MF 110 lenses, > couldn't they? > > -- > Best Regards > Sylwek > > >
