Jan van Wijk wrote: >On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:05:46 +0200, Bertil Holmberg wrote: > >http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=20442947 > >Well, I sure would like the ability to use the new lenses on >my istD as well, since that would be my backup body.
How about this: Rember the Contax AX, which would autofocus with manual focus lenses (by moving the film plane)? That kind of autofocus system should be much easier to implement with a digital sensor than with film (given the pressure plate, film supply from the cartridge, film feed to the take-up spool, etc.). Then we could have *total* backwards compatibility with older Pentax lenses! K and M lenses would even autofocus (without having to stack on the 1.7x AF converter)! ....yes, I'm being facetious. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
