> -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Blakely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I've heard this before and dismissed it, but after some > cogitating, I can't > see why the 24x36 mm digital array needs a larger lens mount that > a 24x36 mm area of film.
Hello pentax-ers, This is my first post as a member, I bought a secondhand MX and 50mm F1.7 M lens yesterday, hopefully I'll run a roll of film through it during the week. The lens mount thing may be to do with the fact that there is a need to minmise the angularity of the rays striking the sensor. A larger mount might allow a larger diameter lens using only the centre part of a larger coverage circle? I'm not an engineer or a physisist though. Clearly it isn't essential to have a larger mount, Kodak and Canon have been making full-frame 35mm digitals on their normal body/mount/lens foundation with varying degrees of success. -- Peter Williams
