On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:03 AM, John Celio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> More demand for Auto110 lens usage than M42? >> Shirley,You cant be serious. > > I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
Shirley, you jest. > It actually has nothing to do with the lenses and everything to do with > size. > > These days, consumers want small, smaller and smallest. ... That's always been a factor. Olympus OM series, Pentax ME, MX, and others sold well partly because of their size. Even earlier, folding cameras and collapsible lenses were common. But you may be right; today it seems to be more of a critical factor. > My point is, using the Auto110 as a basis for a new dSLR would make an > awful lot more sense than M42 for reasons of size, convenience, size, > cost and size. Did I mention size? Olympus Pen? > Neither camera will likely ever exist, though. Right. I wonder if there's any chance of adapters, though. The economics for those are different. No massive design and tooling costs, as for a camera. An adapter that allowed full-aperature metering for M42 on K mount would sell, as would one for Olympus Pen lenses on micro 4/3. -- Sandy Harris, Quanzhou, Fujian, China -- 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.
