You're right. In fact, the front element of the 110 lens is bigger (radially) than the same element of the K lens. The rear element on the K is larger than that of the 110, though.
John On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:32:43 +0100, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simple: the lens elements in a 50/2.8 are very small in relation to the > 35mm lens mount. Making it fit a much smaller lens mount produces a much > smaller lens. The diameter of the glass is about the same though. That > is what they did with the M300/4 which is why it has that distictive > potato masher shape (while the could reduce the diameter of the barrel > they could not reduce the diameter of the head). However, the D series > cameras have the same mount as the 35mm cameras so they can not reduce > the barrel by much. Note that what is happening here is just the > opposite of the situation with long lenses. > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
