"Juan J. Buhler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> [Thoughts on Mike J.'s comments on possible future digital SLRs] >> >> Illuminating as ever, Mike, and the point that there is no law of >> nature that favours a 36x24mm frame is a fair one. However, if >> Pentax is to move to a smaller-frame digital SLR, while still >> maintaining compatibility with the lenses we all value so highly, >> there's some work to do in the area of wideangles. > >Well, this would break compatibility with film cameras, but how about >making lenses that are optimized for the smaller CCDs? They wouldn't >have to have as big a coverage, and you'd get heavy vignetting if you >used them on a K-mount film camera, but they'd probably be compact and >high quality...
...and those who shoot film and digital would have to have two sets of lenses instead of one. And *carry* both sets whenever we're out shooting both film and digital. -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
