On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 03:46:36PM -0800, Jaume Lahuerta wrote: > Thanks Godfrey and Thibouille... > > The lens is attractive but expensive for my standards...and I still don't > feel confident enough to make such an investment in a reduced circle lens (at > least until Pentax states that they would never go the full frame route in > the near future).
You're not going to get an official press release from Pentax saying "We'll never do a 36x24 sensor in a K-mount digital camera". But you've had as close as you can reasonably expect - the interviews (in Japanese) with one of the top Pentax guys that Ken translates and posts here have made it very clear that Pentax see K-mount cameras continuing to use the 24x16 sensor, even in a top-of-the-line model. In any case, Pentax are clearly commited to high-quality reduced circle lenses such as the DA* models due over the next year or so. If they do ever come up with a 36x24 K-mount body I fully expect it to operate in a cropped 24x16 mode if you mount a DA lens. I have no qualms about buying reduced image circle lenses; I'm sure they will work on any K-mount camera that Pentax release. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
