Re[2]: Will Pentax join Olympus?

2002-05-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This move will require something of an about-face for Olympus's PR department. The company has been claiming that interchangeable-lens digicams that use existing 35mm lenses cannot guarantee the fit tolerances needed in such a tiny sensor. Olympus will have to now explain that by starting from

Re[2]: Will Pentax join Olympus?

2002-05-02 Thread Alin Flaider
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. And "how much" is this lens - 5 MPixels? And how many megapixels is capable of the 20 years old, mirror box constrained, 5x zoom

Re[2]: Will Pentax join Olympus?

2002-05-02 Thread Mark Erickson
Alin, I didn't say, "tyranny of the mirror box," I said, "tyranny of the 35mm mirror box." The tyranny is not the mirror box per se, but rather the fact that a 35mm box is oversized when compared to the imaging array. I submit that a properly sized mirror box is not tyranny. Imagine if you