P.J. Alling wrote:
Kind of old news, they were displayed at CES with the new K-50 replacement, (still to be named). I don't know how much credence you should put in a web site that lists as related news rumors of a "cheaper" Pemtax mirrorless camera from 2012! Really, since Pentax won't offer better aperture ring support for K and M series lenses, then I don't really see any particular reason to go full frame. To get the most out of the camera I would have to invest in a whole new lens kit, Might as well switch to Nikon or Canon, in that case.
I'm getting a bit tired of the aperture ring simulator bollocks. Unless I am vastly mistaken, the presence of an aperture ring simulator does absolutely nothing to the optical path of the lens. The only functional difference that you would get is whether you have automatic or manual exposure.
In my experience, for about maybe 5-10% of the photos I take, the light situation is changing rapidly enough that while I am shooting action shots, automatic exposure gives me better results than manual. If all of your photography is sports photography, outdoors, in changing light, then I can see that having automatic exposure can make a significant difference.
In other situations, I find that about 30% of the time, automatic exposure will work well enough that thanks to the exposure latitude of the sensors, for any but my most critical shots, I wouldn't notice the difference between automatic and manual exposure. The vast majority of the time, I find that the metering on my camera is either wonky enough, or tuned for a different style of photography than mine, and automatic exposure simply does not work as well as manual. I do find it slightly reassuring that at least in these cases I'm smarter than a $20 microprocessor.
You have professed that you have no interest in buying new lenses. In reality this means that you are not a customer that Ricoh should worry nearly as much about as the person who will buy $10,000 worth of glass to go with their $2,000 camera body.
I will argue however, that even in a static setting, with manual exposure, or bracketing, taking the very best care, you will still not get as sharp of images with thirty year old lenses as you will with the best of today's lenses. Optical science and production has not been static since you bought your lenses. The best of todays lenses will outperform the best lenses of the manual exposure era. Maybe not in every condition, but there is a reason for coatings, there is a reason that they keep improving their coating formulations. Also computer design allows them to do more to optimize the performance of their lenses.
I have a simple reason for wanting a full frame body, and that is that it will effectively give me a whole bunch of new lenses. My 31 goes from being a standard to a wide. My 50/1.4 goes from being too long for most indoors work, to about right. My 20/1.8, despite it's flaws, will become a rather interestingly wide fast lens. In cases where I currently use my 50/1.4 stopped down a bit, I can use my 77/1.8 with its magic pixie dust.
Rather than whining about the aperture simulator, it would be a lot more productive to ask for a pony.
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