If you buy only FF lenses, you can use them on APS or FF bodies. If you buy FF body, you can use APS or FF lenses too, you just crop image when using APS lenses, either in camera automatically, or in post processing. I dont know if Pentax has a key on their DA lenses but they should have, so when mounted on a FF digital body the camera would know to crop the image automatically.
-- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:hifis...@gate.net) Home Page - www.jchriso.com Join the Audio CD PLAYER DISCUSSION list - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ -----Original Message----- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Miserere Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 2:15 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000 2009/9/5 P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com>: > There may be no scandal in owning two manufactures systems, but there > is a serious duplication of effort, and cost. If I were going to have > a 24x36mm sensor camera and a APS-C sensor camera, I think it would > make a whole lot more sense to buy into Canon, Nikon or Sony, and be > able to re-use a number of lenses and accessories between the two > bodies. True there would be some need for an APS-C W/A zoom, (or a > dedicated W/A prime, if you wanted a kit of all primes), but properly > chosen you could build a lens kit that would give > convenient/conventional AoV for each format with a minimum of > duplication. P.J., I've thought the same thing often; I'd love to give my prime lenses double duty, like using the 50mm f/1.2 on full-frame for a low-light normal FoV. Saves me having to buy a DA* 30mm f/1.2 (ha ha ha ha). I'm not going to hold my breath though. --M. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://www.EnticingTheLight.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
