On 9/17/2014 7:36 PM, Peter Loveday 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.
- Peter
To do that would be foolish in the extreme, Pentax will not have a full
line of full frame lenses available, perhaps for several years, after
the introduction of a full frame camera, they will need backward
compatibility to be competitive.
Ricoh isn't Sony, they don't have unlimited piles of money to throw at
the imaging division, and they're main competition isn't Canon, it's
Nikon, who's backward compatibility is just a 1/2 step behind Pentax.
Then there is the 645 system. It's as reasonably priced as it is
because it shares R&D with the K mount cameras. Do something to break
the K mount legacy and you break that synergy at the same time.
Suddenly you have two lines of cameras that have to be updated pretty
much simultaneously.
But really Ricoh can't afford to alienate the Pentax user base. if they
build a Full Frame DSLR that doesn't at least have as much backward
compatibility as the current APS-C cameras why would I or any of us for
that matter, really care if they build one. Because it says Pentax on
the prism? Please. Asahi Optical Company is dead and gone. My loyalty
to the Pentax brand lasts as long as they support my lenses. Once they
stop doing that, I might as well buy a Sony A7, if I want full frame.
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