Hopefully yes, Pentax will make a new mount for it's digital SLR, taking advantage of a smaller frame size, but (unlike Olympus) with adapters to use both Kmt and M42 lenses.
I agree with your comment IRT electronic viewfinders, but I think the poster was referring to "tyranny" of the size of a 24 x 36 mirror box, not the concept of a mirror box itself. A smaller format sensor chip wouldn't preclude the use of a typical "real image " SLR system, with a mirror, etc. Hmmmm. Pentax already has a smaller format mirror box SLR system in the parts bin - remember the 110? And there are several imagers out there aboyut the size of a 110 frame! Holy hotcakes, Batman, could the 110 SLR system be the basis for a Pentax digital SLR!?!?!? Let's just stick the guts of an Optio 430 into an A110 and be done with it! Pretty decent lenses from what I understand, if a crappy film system.... Chris L. School Publications Guy Re: Will Pentax join Olympus? > As long as the mirror box "tyranny" gives me an optical TTL > viewfinder, then so be it. The hell will freeze before I buy a > digital viewfinder camera. Christopher Lillja Publications Coordinator The Pennington School www.pennington.org - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
