It's too late for me to understand most of what you said - in fact, most of the time i don't understand much of what you say ;-)) ... anyway, it's been a long day and I had to put up with Bruce Dayton for four hours. The things a Pentaxian will do for a free beer <LOL - this is actually funnier than you think ;-))>
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Digital Image Studio > On 24/09/06, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > The sensor in the pentax is full frame, just for a different format. > > You are correct but the problem is that the lenses are still optimised > for 36x24mm or were until they were nobbled. The register distance is > a function of the required mirror clearance which is determined my > reflex mirror size/film format. So given the register distance lenses > providing a "normal" angle of view need to be retro-focus designs > instead of gaussian making them much larger for comparable > performance. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
