On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Peter Loveday <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 9/17/2014 3:43 PM, JC OConnell wrote: >>>> >>>> I was daydreaming today about the possible upcoming Pentax FF DSLR and >>>> it got me thinking about the lensmount. >>>> Since the FF body will initially be relying heavily on legacy, not >>>> current lenses, would Pentax dare to uncripple the mount and bring >>>> back the aperture cam sensor so that K and M lenses could meter and do >>>> autoexposure? >>>> That would be icing on the cake and make the camera irresistible for me. >>>> >>> Daydream on like Pentax's soul the aperture simulator is lost forever. >> >> >> Not only that. I expect the mechanical aperture lever to go away >> eventually and be replaced by all-electronic aperture stop-down. >> Probably with some backwards compatibility at first. > > > Yes, indeed. > > If anything we may see less compatibility with the (mythical?) FF line than > we have with APS/C. Ricoh may see this as an opportunity to modernize and > make a clean(ish) break. > > A good number of DA lenses will already be unusable (without some > auto-crop), and it's really anyone's guess how well legacy K glass will > perform. Much of it has been less-than-stellar on APS/C, and FF would > potentially be somewhat worse. > > I'm not suggesting all lenses will instantly be incompatible, but I would be > *very* surprised if they took the mount backwards and not forwards.
I cannot even _imagine_ the howls of injured outrage if that happens. And I think you could even be right--it makes complete sense. I think I'd have to unsubscribe from the entire Internet for a few months if your prediction comes true. -- -bmw -- 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.
