On Sep 8, 2011, at 2:16 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > On 9/8/2011 3:38 PM, William Robb wrote: >> On 08/09/2011 1:25 PM, Sam L wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> Yet I have never seen anything quite as retarded. It is a little >>> bit like mounting a race engine to a bicycle. >>> >>> If you bought the Q, you wanted a small camera. If you mount anything >>> but a Q (or similar tiny lens), >>> then your camera is no longer small. >>> >>> Sorry for stating the obvious! >> >> Have you looked at a NEX with any lens mounted? >> > Which I think makes the point nicely.
Don't expect marketing to have any basis in reality. When (a vast percentage of) people are shopping for something like the Q they will merely look at the ticky box that says that they *can* mount their camera to K-mount lenses, they won't look at the ticky box that says whether it's a good idea. Although, to be honest, I'm very curious to see what sort of moon photos I could get with a Q mounted to my bigma. I suspect that at 500mm the moon would more than fill the frame. It'll be the center of the FOV, so the sharpest part of the lens. With the bigma mounted on a tripod, I wouldn't tremendously care what the body was like. And to be honest, with the weird angles I've had a lens aimed at for lunar photography, live view would probably be a lot easier to deal with than the optical viewfinder. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
