On Jul 12, 2011, at 9:42 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > The only problem with the M mount module, is that it breaks the whole concept > behind the system. Matching the sensor to the lens. The M module is going > to have an APS-C sized sensor, for lenses designed for 24x36mm film frames. > > However forgetting about the original concept, which never made a lot of > sense to me, except maybe from a marketing standpoint. The argument that you > had to have a lens matched to a digital sensor doesn't hold up. A good lens > is a good lens, a bad lens is a bad lens, sometimes a not great lens designed > for 35mm film gives better results on an APS-C digital sensor.
My feeling on that is that I love my FA77, and am very glad that I don't have to still use it with my K100 sensor. I don't think that sensor technology is mature enough that any sensor won't be obsolete in a few years. If you can pay a few bucks to upgrade a sensor in a camera unit, then I'd be more interested. I wonder what percentage of the price of the K-5 is directly related to the electronics that you'd buy with each "camera unit"? Frankly, I'd be more interested in interchangable sensors. I'd love a super high sensitivity, high resolution B&W sensor, an infrared sensor, maybe even a very tiny pixel pitch, M4/3 sized sensor to make my telephotos seem that much longer. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
