On Nov 1, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:

Larry,
Put the FA31mm limited on a film camera body and shoot a roll of film.
It will change how you feel about the 1.5x crop of today's sensors.
Regards,  Bob S.

Yes, it will reaffirm that the fov of any lens is indeed wider on 24 x 36 film than it is on a sensor of smaller dimensions. Other than that...not much.
Paul

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:

On Oct 31, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Miserere wrote:

It's all here, if you're interested:

http://enticingthelight.com/2010/11/01/speaking-to-pentax-at-photoplus-expo-in-new-york/

The 645D? What a camera... Lovely viewfinder too.

Thanks for posting this.

Pentax needs to sell cameras now. If Ned says that the price on the K-5 is going to drop $200 in a month, no one will buy one this month.

When I started buying lenses for my K100 a couple years back, I didn't buy any lenses that wouldn't work with a 24x36 sensor because I was worried that a "full frame" camera would render them obsolete. Now, I buy the equipment that solves today's problem.

The needle tracks up and down both of my arms spell out "fast primes", but my K-x will do better in low light with f/2.8 glass than my K100 did with f/1.8 glass, the K-5 better still. Pentax will get more low light benefit for their development dollar from Moore's law than they ever can hope to with fast primes. My guess is that they'll put their efforts into sharp zooms, possibly small, sharp zooms.

The next generation of photographers may be buying cameras never having used a camera that hasn't had a zoom lens. It's what they'll expect, and what they'll look for when shopping.


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