P�l Audun Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Olympus, Kodak, Fuji Film and Panasonic have announced that they are going >to standardize digital slr's. They will try to get other companies to join. >I take for granted that Pentax will be asked. The standardization include >lens mount and CCD size. Lenses will be interchangeable between different >makes of digital cameras. The CCD will be 13,2 X 17,6mm which is damned >small. Anyway, this will give room for very compact lenses and could >revolutionize super telephoto work if quality of CCD is high enough. I've >always been of the opinion that the bulky 35mm format is not ideal for digital. >Regardless what happens, I still believe that Pentax will support the >K.mount, digital and otherwise, simply due to the fact that there are loads >of lenses out there and a whole lens system in place. I hope, though, that >Pentax will jump on this new digital bandwagon as well.
I can't see Canon or Nikon changing lens mounts either. This sounds like the digital equivalent of APS. Standardizing the CCD size is one of the absolute *dumbest* ideas I've ever heard of. One of the big *advantages* of digital photography is having different CCD sizes: you can use, for example, a Canon D-30 with 1.6x multiplication factor for wildlife and sports photography, or the EOS-1D with a 1.3x multiplication factor and there's undoubtedly a 1:1 (full-frame CCD) coming in the future for landscape photographers and other wide angle types. All with the same lenses. You aren't locked in by what film is being manufactured or what processing equipment is available. -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
