On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Rob Brigham wrote: > Could an MF lens design be translated into an AF lens?
Sure. Pentax and Nikon have both done this. I don't know how big the lens flange is for 110 Pentax lenses and if they could stick a AF blade and contacts in there. > 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! 2/3" CCDs (as used on the Sony DSC-F717, Minolta DImage A1, and Olympus E-10/E-20) are a lot noisier than the CCD in the E-1 and much noisier than the CCD in the *ist D. A small SLR system, especially for the right price, could be very popular though. A lot of people seem to be moving up from the DSC-F717 to the Canon EOS Digital Rebel to get interchangable lenses as much as anything else. alex
