John Celio wrote:
- Cotty won't have to eat his hat and the rest of us won't have to
re-invest in new 35mm lenses.
Most of mine are 35mm.
Er, I meant digital-optimized 35mm lenses (like the D-FA macros).
All I know is, the DA lenses I own or have used perform immensely
better than older 35mm lenses on digital. I'm a BIG fan of the DA
line, and would not like to have to go back to 35mm-format lenses.
I think this is where I usually point out that "DA" does not necessarily
mean the lens will not cover the 35mm (film) format. People have in fact
posted pictures that shows the opposite for some of the models, and it
was rumoured that others (the "long" primes, mainly) were originally
designed as "D-FA" lenses, then changed to "DA" not because of format
issues, but because the aperture ring was dropped.
And also that you may well be able to use smaller-format lenses in "crop
mode" on a future FF body to produce exactly the same pictures you do
today. (If you got a 24x36 sensor with slightly more than 30Mp, which
does not seem unlikely, you could crop the output to "APS-C" size and
still have the 14Mp of the K20D left.)
- Toralf
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