On 4 Jan 2006 at 8:09, Bob Shell wrote:

> The Minolta system, which appears similar to this new Pentax system,  
> does not need to know lens focal length.  I tested the Maxxum 7D with  
> a number of lenses mounted via adapters and it worked just fine, even  
> with a 1000mm mirror lens.  I found no difference in effectiveness  
> between adapted lenses and Minolta lenses.

I'll defer to your experience.

> Maybe I am missing something, but I would assume that a 1mm  
> displacement of the camera body would produce a 1mm shift in position  
> of the image on the sensor, regardless of lens focal length.

No unfortunately it's not that simple.


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