> > From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/10/01 Mon PM 10:14:03 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: DA70 and 24x36 coverage > > Kinda kills ya doesn't it? :-) > > Tom C.
A little bit of me dies every time it happens. > > >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. > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- 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.
