I've seen it suggested that the top right center dial might have something to do with a a hybrid EVF overlay, but it seems like kind of a crazy idea to me (then again, I know nothing about EVFs or how that might work).
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > John Francis wrote: > >>On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 11:10:12AM -0500, Darren Addy wrote: >>> Has anybody commented on the "crop" setting on the top right center dial? >>> I'm guessing that this is a way to keep DA lenses relevant on the Full >>> Frame. >> >>I'd have thought that the camera would know when a crop-factor lens was >>mounted; >>all the DA lenses have the lens ID chip to identify themselves to the camera. > > Perhaps the crop setting allows you to shoot in APS-C format even with > a full-frame lens mounted. > >>So what will happen when you mount a DA lens? will there be some way for the >>viewfinder to show a magnified view of just the central portion of the field? > > Good question. How do Nikon/Canon/Sony handle this? (I used a > fill-frame Sony for years but never tried an APS-C format lens on it.) > > -- > 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. -- 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.
