On 24 June 2011 02:38, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember a number of posts pleading for a digital version of the Petnax 110 > camera -- a camera with an image area too small to be of much practical use. > A camera that used interchangeable lenses with leaf shutters. Hmmm, sounds > like the Q;-). > Paul >
You're hit the nail on the head there, Paul. People asked for a "Digital Auto110" in the vain hope that Pentax could just slam a 4/3 sensor into the old Auto110 silhouette. They're practically the same size format, so why not? Well, look around at all the m43 cameras. There is no camera nearly as small as an Auto110 because the sensor package is way bigger than the actual image area, unlike in a film camera. I would have thought we all realised that by now. Yet some people just don't get it. What Pentax have delivered is a camera that is the philosophical equivalent of an Auto110. It has the smallest sensor that's commonly used for general photography. I'm OK with that, although I won't be buying it. My pipe dream camera has a 2/3 sensor and a C-mount, or at least a mount with a shorter register or wider flange that allows a fully functional adapter for C-mount. There's an ocean of cine lenses out there, theyre as ubiquitous as M42 or K-mount. Red probably make such a camera, but it won't be compact and it won't be affordable. And what is it with this "mirrorless K-mount". If it's mirrorless, why does it need to be K-mount. The register distance will be way shorter and need an adapter anyway, so why burden it with a legacy mount that has been kludged into the 21st century? Better to give it an all new state-of-the-art mount. There'll be $18 adapters from Chinese workshops coming to Ebay soon enough, or a decent one from Zork for $300. regards, Anthony "Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight" (Anon) -- 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.
