Wrong question - sort of. It's not about designing a new body. This was allways an option - Pentax designs new bodies all the time. So does everybody else.
It's about utilizing existing technology and manufacturing facilities in order to access or sustain a market. That's what happened in the 35mm business. The *ist D and *ist DS adapted CCD's to their current lens program/current market segment. The question is the same for MF: How can Pentax utilize and sustain their market segment (645 and 67) by producing MF gear (lenses, bodyparts, accessories)? The answer is obvious: By adapting a MF digital sensor/digital back to their MF lineup of bodies, lenses and accessories. That is what they will try to do - if it's not allready to late. Others - Hassselblad, Mamiya, Rollei - did this a long ago. Just like Fuji, Pentax never got arround to turning their MF-line-up around to digital. If they ever will, or if they choose to refrain from doing this, remains to be seen. Perhaps they ought to join forces - Fuji might be able to make the sensors. Pentax is able to make the bodies. They might be able to kick some Hassie/Rollie/Mamiya butt! If MF is dying anyway - it might not really be worth the trouble?? Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Butch Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 11. marts 2005 03:38 Til: [email protected] Emne: Question for all of you gear-heads Hi The thread about the MF based Pentax DSLR got me thinking, (always a dangerous proposition) First, the question. If building a body for use with Pentax MF lenses, would the flange to sensor distance be the same as the flange to film distance in the film cameras? If so, wouldn't it be possible to design a body marginally larger then the ist-D using either a FF 35mm sized sensor or Kodak's 40x40mm sensor with adapters for 67, 645 and 35mm lenses. Maybe even using a hypersonic motor in the adapters to provide autofocusing for the 645 and 35mm AF lenses. HEY PENTAX. If you're reading this list and use this Idea, you owe me one of them for the idea :) Butch
