You can use them all on film bodies. It's just that with some you get a
fancy black frame around a circular image. :-)
Tom C.
From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: DA70 and 24x36 coverage
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:24:34 +0200
I guess you're right. Though admit - if you are choosing lenses and
you have both film and digital body, it is extremely confusing which
ones you could use on both bodies and which ones you could use only on
the digital one.
On 10/2/07, Margus Männik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> you are looking from the wrong side :)
> Those two lenses (especially 70mm) wouldn't be any smaller if made for
> reduced image circle. Fullframe DA21, OTOH, would have been much more
> complex and expensive to design. DA means "optimized for digital" and no
> one have ever said if DA lenses have to be usable on film bodies or not.
> In a meaning of products (something that you can sell NEW to people),
> those are beautiful history anyways. So think about the full frame
> coverage on DA40 and DA70 as an BONUS for true Pentax fans. No extra
> cost, nothing to worry about...
>
> BR, Margus
>
>
> Boris Liberman wrote:
> > Yes, Peter, that's my understanding too.
> >
> > But why then honorable sir William would take the DA 70 and probably
> > DA 40 lenses and mount them on his film camera?
> >
> > Like I said - a little blurred...
> >
> > Boris
>
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