What are you calling "traditional Leica glass"? M-mount has a 27.8mm flange to film/sensor distance. M39 is 28.8. Leica R-mount is 47mm (longer than the "kludge" K-mount 45.46.)
PS... would you please be so kind as to pass along the name and number of your pharmacist? : ) On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been thinking about upcoming cameras from a Pentax-centric point > of view. We keep asking for a Pentax "full frame" camera, and the > latest rumors seem to have being mirrorless. There are a lot of > technical advantages in terms of light path to mirrorless, and there is > the advantage of you see what the sensor sees. > > But, using K-mount for mirrorless is a kludge. You lose the short > registration distance advantage, without kludging lenses that have > elements that extend past the mount. > > But the company isn't Pentax, it's Ricoh. And they have already > made an interchangeable lens camera with a well defined, full > frame capable, mirrorless mount. The GXR Leica mount module. > > What if the new high end, full frame sensor, camera coming from > Ricoh were not a Pentax mount, but a Leica mount? Ideally a mount > that is mechanically compatible with traditional Leica glass, but > with contacts for autofocus etc. And what if, just for the hell > of it, they also sold an adapter that allowed use of K-mount lenses > in full auto focus? Even if it were just full autofocus on the SDM > lenses. > > When you get down to it, Ricoh does almost sound like Leica said > with a Japanese accent. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- 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.
