Amusing, but not a bad idea. Reminds me of the Fuji medium format rangefinders. Great cameras, those.
On Sep 26, 2011, at 9:46 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > On 9/26/2011 6:20 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: >> Hopefully the new mirrorless is APS-C. > So, I was drinking with Ned and John last week, and after the third round of > Islay malt, they let some details slip. > The new mirrorless won't be APS-C, it'll be the 645M. Pentax figures that > there will be too much competition in the market space between APS-C and the > Q sensors, and folks that want a big sensor, want a BIG sensor. The cost of > the medium format sensors is only going to drop with time (as the performance > of the Q sensor improves), so they are going to stake out the Medium Format > Mirrorless market. It'll use the same sensor as the 645D, but will have the > same registration distance as the Q. Adapters will be available to use any > Pentax camera lens. On lenses where the body can read the lens ID, it will > automatically set the crop factor (so an FA lens with a large image circle > may be larger than 24x36) or the image area on the sensor can be manually > set. Most of the electronics and software will be shared with the 645D, and > with the simpler mechanicals, they'll be sell it at $8,000 rather than > $10,000. > > > >> >> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:19 PM, John Sessoms<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Shouldn't the rumors start to fly next week? >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (from dos4est) > > > -- > 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.
