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.
H. 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
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