On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:29 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 26, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Alexandru-Cristian Sarbu > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Let me rephrase that: would a newly designed telecentric lens have >> issues, with offset microlenses? (it's the other way around) >> Of course, new sensors could make this a non-issue. > > It shouldn't, but depends on the implementation of the offset microlenses. > Only testing an actual product can answer that question properly. > >>> I guess you want to debate the meaning of "dead and buried." >> Not really, I'll replace "dead and buried" with "being phased out" if >> that makes you more comfortable. No one likes to be told he's using >> "dead and buried" things... > > It's a more realistic and objective statement. > >>> To me, dead and buried means the bodies that take a lens' mount are out of >>> production, and the lens cannot be used on any other in-production body, >>> with or without adapter, and provide the lens full functionality. ... >> Then, 4/3 lenses are "dead and buried" until they'll have a u4/3 body >> capable to focus them as fast as the E-5? :-p > > Regardless of the speed of the AF, all FT SLR lenses have autofocused with > all Olympus mFT cameras from day one of the Pen E-P1. The E-M1 provides a > better AF solution, that's all. > > You will never have auto-diaphragm operation with a Pentax DSLR using a > Pentax M42 lens... That's a non-functional lens feature. Indeed, but you also won't have open-aperture metering with K and M K-mount lenses, and with Nikon entry level bodies can't autofocus with all AF lenses. It's not exactly a clear cut line. Without a good enough AF, u4/3 cameras weren't really an alternative. > >> It doesn't really matters if they still making lenses or they're NOS, that's >> temporary; the mount is being phased out. > > That's true, but does it matter? Isn't it nice that Olympus and Panasonic > have provides a seamless upgrade path so owners can continue using their > existing lenses? And now with native DSLR focusing performance? It's time to > celebrate! ];-) It's all good, as long as you WANT to migrate to micro4/3 ;-)
But we took quite a detour from where we started - which was that the youngest, designed for digital SLR mount couldn't survive - yet "dinosaurs" like K and F did. > > G Alex -- 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.
