It is interesting that neither Nikon or Canon produced new lens mounts for Digital. But Canon did produce a new lens mount when they went to Auto-Focus. This in spite of drawbacks inherent in using a smaller than full frame 35mm sensor with 35mm lenses. (Just food for thought).
At 12:23 AM 10/14/2002 +1000, you wrote: >On 13 Oct 2002 at 8:13, William Robb wrote: > > > At the risk of being tiresome, if not having a large format rig > > was costing you money, you'd buy one, and would accept that > > Pentax doesn't support it, because they never have supported it. > > Why is a digital SLR any different? > >Because it should only be a like a media change (ie add a digi-body) not a >format change (add body and lenses). I've got a bloody MF rig and I accept >that >I can't use my 35mm lenses on it. However the convention in DSLR >development in >the major camps is that neither Nikon or Canon users had to dump their >existing >kit to add the scope of digital image capture to their kits. So this is why >they aren't whining, they just have to pout about the competition having 5% >more pixels, poor sods. > >The fact is that we all know that we can add another system or we can pack up >and sell out but either may be expensive propositions that for some of us >make >the prospect of a $4k digital Pentax body sound cheap and far less time >consuming. > >Rob Studdert >HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA >Tel +61-2-9554-4110 >UTC(GMT) +10 Hours >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html
