Yes, Peter, that's my understanding too. But why then honorable sir William would take the DA 70 and probably DA 40 lenses and mount them on his film camera?
Like I said - a little blurred... Boris On 10/2/07, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > F FA FAJ Full frame 35mm > D FA Full frame (24x36mm) Digital (what ever that means special coatings > at the very least) with a f stop ring for film bodies. > DA Reduced frame digital > > The definitions are fairly simple. Full frame will be guaranteed to > cover 24x36mm Reduced frame will be guaranteed to cover 16x24mm. It's > not that complicated. > > Boris Liberman wrote: > > If you remember, Godfrey, FAJ 18-35 used to be a kit lens for *istD when > > it first came out. > > > > No, there is nothing confusing about it. It is just that the definition > > of what exactly is FA, FAJ, DA, D FA lens is a little blurred to me. > > > > Boris > > > > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > > >> I don't know what's confusing about it. The FA-J lenses were a small > >> set of modestly priced "junior" lenses in the FA series produced for > >> the Film cameras. > >> > >> The DA series are the latest lenses designed for the Digital cameras. > >> > >> Just because a lens is optimized for a digital sensor doesn't mean > >> that its image circle *has* to be too small to cover a larger format. > >> > >> G > >> > >> On Oct 1, 2007, at 9:37 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Well, yes, I hear what Mark, Godfrey and you are saying. But consider > >>> the FAJ lenses. Although very short living (are they still produced?) > >>> and with just 3 lenses - they were still full frame (proper) lenses > >>> that > >>> did't have an aperture ring... > >>> > >>> Indeed, this is confusing. > >>> > >>> In fact, if anyone of us who has these DA lenses (40, 70) would > >>> care for > >>> a (as much as I dislike this term) full frame test, it would be most > >>> helpful. > >>> > >>> OTOH, it is known that DA 21 does *not* cover the full frame. > >>> > >>> Go figure... > >>> > >>> Boris > >>> > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > Remember, it's pillage then burn. > > > -- > 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.
