I'm sure that a lot of people also bought the Pentax 645d/z system who never owned legacy lenses. This is because Pentax really lowered the price of entry to a medium format body over the competition.
That 25mm is the lens I would lust after the most for my supercell photography. WOW what I couldn't do with that. On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm an outlier then. Wouldn't be the first time. :) > > I bought the 645Z and the two available non-screwdrive lenses, as I > much prefer those. I also prefer lenses developed specifically for > digital. Sure it almost doubled the body cost, but it's still _way_ > cheaper than any other digital medium format camera system available. > And those two lenses cover almost all my shooting requirements too. > > There's a third SDM lens actually: the 25mm. If I ever decide I need a > 20mm-e wide angle, I'll go for it, though looks like I'd have to buy a > used one as they were discontinued. > > You have a point though, Stan. Taken. > > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Stanley Halpin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have to disagree with both of you on this point. The 645D and 645Z would >> have had virtually no market as a camera body on its own. It takes lenses to >> complement the body to create a camera “system.” Without screw-drive >> focusing (and thus compatibility with two handfuls of prime and zoom >> FA-series lenses), a buyer would have had only 1 or 2 available lenses, and >> those at a cost that would have doubled the cost of the 645 digital camera >> system. Yeah sure, there are at least as many 645 A-series lenses out >> there, but lenses that are manual-focus only are so last century! And only >> for the young with good vision. And those aforementioned youngsters with >> good vision are less likely to have the financial capacity for a digital 645 >> camera system. Without backward compatibility the Pentax 645 digital bodies >> would not have happened. >> >> stan >> >>> On Sep 24, 2015, at 10:53 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Bruce Walker wrote: >>> >>>> Even the 645Z has screwdrive AF. If anything could have stood a >>>> compatibility removal, it's that. >>> >>> Yep. >>> >>> -- >>> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >>> www.robertstech.com >>> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
