I guess my points did not sink in. The APS lenses can not only be cheaper smaller and lighter for same focal length and speed, there is good reason to believe thay could OUTPERFORM the FF lenses in a wide angle APS application. What more could do you want? (besides possible full frame future usage?).
The APS lenses are not just some marketing "shennanigan". (Absence of the K/M apertue cam sensor is though ! ) They make a whole lot of sense on a APS camera especially the wide angles where the extra angles of coverage needed for FF of same focal length are very hard to achieve optically. JCO -----Original Message----- From: Tom C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 4:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: M42 ultra-wide I wasn't the original poster but I still hold to what I said. If a FF body comes out that I can use my lenses on (assuming I could afford it), I would have little reason to pickup a digital body with an APS-sized sensor. That means any investment in APS-matched digital lenses is also at risk of not being used, or sold for a paltry fraction of the original purchase price. Not the end of the world, but... IMO, the whole marketing of APS digital lenses is a shennanigan. Knowing what I know (which may not be alot), if I was buying into Pentax digital for the first time and had no existing lenses, I still would not buy the APS matched lenses. Tom C. >From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: M42 ultra-wide >Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:24:07 -0600 > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" >Subject: RE: M42 ultra-wide > > >>FF lens is not an advantage on a APS camera. >>APS lenses have some very good advantages over FF lenses on APS >>camera. That was the point of the post. If a lens is FF it doesn't >>provide any of the APS lens advantages I listed... It seems you are >>just arguing without considering the point of the post.... > >Shucks John, I thought the original post was some guy not wanting to >buy >APS lenses when they might be obsoleted by full frame bodies..... > >William Robb > >
