But remember the K-01 was developed under Hoya, and was the cheapest way
to achieve a mirrorless camera possible, which was to take a K-r lop off
the prism, replace the mirror box with a plain box and put redesigned
plastic body panels on the existing stainless steel frame. There were a
number of ways that Hoya could have gone with the K-01 concept and
except for the expensive industrial/fashion designer, Hoya always
followed the cheapest path. There were firmware changers necessary, but
the important ones had mainly to do with removing code not adding it.
On 9/19/2014 5:32 AM, Brian Walters wrote:
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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