Quoting "P.J. Alling" <[email protected]>:
Sadly I agree with Cotty, the FF camera will be Ricoh branded, mirrorless with a newly developed lens mount similar to and electrically compatible with the KFA mount, and an adapter that will allow all K mount lenses to be used at the proper register distance. The adapter will come in two versions, an auto focus adapter module with a motor to drive screw driven lenses, and one that simply passes through power for lenses with built in motors. Both adapters will have also have provision to actuate the the stopdown lever in K mount lenses, of all vintages as the new camera will have only electrical contacts to control those motors in the new R mount lenses. For purest it will include an aperture simulator that will translate the f stop of the adapted lens to electrical data for the camera's metering system.
Well now, if they'd adopted a strategy like that for the K-01, we might have seen the concept continued instead of leading to a dead end. I might have even owned a subsequent model (one with a viewfinder) instead of the OMD I just bought.
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