On 14/10/06, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If one were to be technically accurate, then one would understand that > an APS-C sized digital sensor represents a different format from 35mm > film. > The different format being 18x27mm (or whatever, I'm not going to go > look it up). > This is as big a jump as going from the 24x36 film format to 645, or > from 645 to 6x7. > I know it is nice that full frame legacy film lenses can be used on the > new format, but really, the small image circle DA lenses are actually > the ones designed for the new format. > Lenses that cover the 35mm frame will likely be phased out as soon as > Pentax stops making film SLR cameras altogether.
Then the legacy will be a register distance that was designed to accommodate 35mm FF image area and lenses that mos likely aren't optimal for the APS DSLR format. IE one big compromise. What I'm interested to see is how the manufacturers will sell the next gen cameras give than in all reality APS sized sensors are at 12MP IOW as dense as is practical WRT lens technology and minimum photo site size. Should be interesting. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
