Re: DA14mm - why so large and heavy?

[Peter J. Alling]

Admit it's the list that's making your brain leak out of your ear.  If I 
were you I'd get a set of matched
stoppers...

William Robb wrote:
I was going to comment on this, but I commented on it last month when
it came up.
Maybe when it comes up next month it can be my turn?
Anyway, I have a 6x7 adaptor for my view camera that turns my 65mm
lens into a ......
65mm lens.
It turns my 90mm lens into a 90mm lens, my 150mm lens into a 150mm
lens, and finally, it even changes my 210mm lens into a ......
210mm lens.
What is even more startling, is when I put my 6x7- K mount adaptor
onto my LX, all my 6x7 lenses get changed into exactly the same focal
lengths that are listed on the lens bezels, and to make matters even
more confusing, if I mount it on the istD, my 6x7 lenses are still,
frustratingly enough, the same focal length as what the manufacturer
claims them to be.
All this is so confusing, I think I feel my brain leaking out my ear.
William Robb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "graywolf"
Subject: Re: DA14mm - why so large and heavy?

 

That is kind of silly, you could just crop an APS size section of
   

the FF image
 

and get the same effect. Or you could take your 35mm put an aps
   

size mask in it
 

and say all your lenses were 1.5 times as long. Why not mask down
   

to 6mmx9mm and
 

call your 50/1.4 a 200/1.4?
Hey, what an idea, I think I will mask down my 4x5 and then my
   

semi-wideangle
 

lens would be a telephoto. Oh, I don't have to do that, I can just
   

use a roll
 

film back that does the same thing? What, you say I could have done
   

that back in
 

the 1930's? Gee, I thought all this BS was a brand new idea? Then
   

there was the
 

Rolleikin adaptor for the Rolleiflexes that let you use 35mm film
   

in them. Funny
 

thing is, no one thought their lenses got longer when they did that
   

back then.
 

People must have just been smarter in the old days. Nowadays,
   

suckers believe
 

anything the advertising guys say.
--
Nenad Djurdjevic wrote:
   

Quite right.  That is why when a (Pentax) Full Frame digital body
     

comes out
 

I would ideally like to keep the *istD.  That way I can use it
     

for telephoto
 

shots and the FF body for wide angle.
     

--
graywolf
http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html