If pentax had the balls to finally come out with a FF camera but it
didnt take conventional K mount lenses, I would bail on pentax rather
than buy into that bullshit.
On 9/17/2014 8:11 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
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.
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