Kinda kills ya doesn't it? :-) Tom C.
>From: "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: DA70 and 24x36 coverage >Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:02:43 -0400 > >If the comments below are true, it's bad. The lens designation >should convey if a lens wont cover 24x36mm IMHO. A APS-C only >lens is not the same thing as a 24x36 lens and there should be >an easy way to know by the lens designation IMHO. >jco > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Godfrey DiGiorgi >Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 3:37 PM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >Subject: Re: DA70 and 24x36 coverage > > >On Oct 1, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > > I am asking my question mainly because if it indeed covered full frame > > > and there were no image deterioration past the APC frame, Pentax > > probably would have given it FDA designation instead of DA. > >The D-FA mount includes an aperture ring control. DA lenses do not. > >The DA70 has no aperture ring control, it was design for use with the >digital SLR bodies. Whether it actually covers 24x36 mm format isn't >really relevant to the mount designation. > >Godfrey > >--- >Not really relevant but interesting: > >In the course of researching my latest lens acquisition, I saw an >article about someone who took an M42 mount Pentax Fish-Eye-Takumar >17mm lens and cobbled up a mount to fit it on a 6x6 rollfilm folder >with behind-lens leaf shutter. His goal was to make circular fish eye >images inexpensively ... it produced an image circle ~ 45mm in >diameter on the 6x6 format film, which suited his needs perfectly. >--- > > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
