Bingo! Add K-mount adapter (like 645-to-K and 67-to-645) and you've got a winner: your 200/4 becomes an extreme telephoto AND you can get an inexpensive fast superwide just for that mount.
Mishka ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 6:04 PM Subject: Pentax Digital SLR - a heretical viewpoint > I believe that Pentax could steal a couple marches on Canon, Nikon et al by > coming out with an entirely new system for the digital slr. Tying new > technology to old 35mm technology doesn't make sense. The 35mm size lenses > and bodies were built to allow the lenses to focus on a 35mm frame. A new > digital system doesn't have to to focus on a sensor that size. With computer > technology advances, it won't be too long before they'll get a 15meg image > from a sensor the size of a postage stamp. > > A new much smaller footprint digital slr makes all the sense in the world. > The body could be built around the sensor size and the lenses could be > designed to provide full frame pictures for the small sensor. That would > mean much smaller and therefore much cheaper lenses. It also would make > possible lenses that couldn't be made for 35mm format. Imaging a digital > equivalent to a 2000mm f/4 telephoto lens that could sell for $400 or so. It > could be done with a new smaller size system. Lighter weight and smaller > cheaper lenses would kick the snot out of Canon and Nikon. > > I have a few thousand dollars tied up in Pentax 35mm equipment but I'd still > like to see Pentax recognize that the format is going to be obsolete and > start a new digital system based on digital sensor sizes. > > Tom Reese > > >
