The way I see it is that since the introduction of their DSLRs, Pentax has broken away with caring one iota about compatibility with legacy products like they always did in the past. They could very easily put out a new FF DSLR that DOESNT USE DA lenses under their new mantra, and develop/sell new full frame "digital optimized" lens line just for all the new current and future FF DSLRS. Even so, I dont think there would be any problem using DA lenses on these FF DSLR bodies, they would just have to crop the sensor recording and put some crop lines in the finder to make them fully usable as the DA lenses were designed to be. Cant complain about that, they are only APS lensees and everybody knew that before they bought them. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike wilson Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 9:13 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Pentax - Selling HQ and Apparently Drops 645D The lens line has been in existence for years. I see no FF DSLR. > > From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/05/11 Fri AM 10:24:09 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: Pentax - Selling HQ and Apparently Drops 645D > > Nonsense. Pentax has never obsoleted a line of lenses before they're > introduced. > On May 11, 2007, at 3:16 AM, mike wilson wrote: > > > Unfortunately, it's not. Pentax has made its whole lens line > > obsolete once before and has more than once introduced cameras that > > will not work properly (maybe _fully_ is a better term) with other > > than contemporary lenses. DA lenses seem to produce FF images over > > about 24mm FL (and nobody seems to have tested the more expensive > > primes for FF coverage) so Pentax would not be cutting the whole of > > that particular limb off, anyway. > >> > >> From: Jack Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Date: 2007/05/10 Thu PM 02:19:48 GMT > >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > >> Subject: Re: Pentax - Selling HQ and Apparently Drops 645D > >> > >> Irrefutable logic! > >> > >> Jack > >> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >>> Whatever size sensor Pentax uses in the K1D, we can be sure it > >>> will work with DA lenses. They wouldn't be introducing a full line > >>> of expensive lenses for cameras that can't use them. So FF is > >>> definitely > >>> a no go. > >>> Paul > >>> -------------- Original message ---------------------- > >>> From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>> Digital Image Studio wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> But they just can't go on increasing the density of APS sized > >>> sensor > >>>>> ad infinitum, it will only end in tears. > >>>> > >>>> It's true. If the K1D is 14 megapixels as reported, it'll > >>>> certainly > >>> > >>>> have to have a larger sensor than APS-C if they're going to meet > >>> users' > >>>> (ever-increasing) demands for low noise. (I would expect around a > >>> 1.3 > >>>> crop to keep it usable with current DA lenses.) > >>>> > >>>> Here's a sobering statistic I just read: > >>>> Even if Canon pushes the upcoming 1Ds-III up to 22 megapixels as > >>>> rumored it will still have *lower* pixel density (that is, larger > >>>> pixels) than the Nikon D2x does *now* at 12 megapixels. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>>> PDML@pdml.net > >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>> PDML@pdml.net > >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ___________________________________________________________________ > >> __ > >> _______________ > >> Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast > >> with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. > >> http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> PDML@pdml.net > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email > > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
