02-02-2012, 02:10 PM
[quote name='mst' timestamp='1328130751' post='15389']
I'm mostly with BC here (except that I can imagine it to actually be comfortable). And I still don't get the K-mount idea, except that they can start their mirrorless system now with a large existing lens portfolio. But a "real" mirrorless (with short flange distance), native lenses and K-mount adapter still sounds like a much better idea to me...
-- Markus
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[quote name='you2' timestamp='1328189026' post='15404']
Pentax cameras have always been relatively compact (compared to nikon or canon). From a business perspective this makes sense to me as it reduce their production cost (conversely increase margins). It also allows them to compete with true mirror-less systems from a marketing perspective. Yea - it is not as compact but then again is the fuji pro-1 that much smaller ?
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Camera systems with short flanged register distances only gain a size benefit when used together with a relatively small range of lenses, namely non-retrofocal shortish widish angle lenses. Ironically, that group of lenses also tend to be mediocre on typical digital sensors compared to their much longer retrofocal counterparts. Of course longer lenses (>45mm or so) are the same length from the image plane regardless of minor distance differences in register lengths. So there would be very little advantage to a short flange distance system except that the body sans lens is much more sexy and a set of sexy-small but crappy primes can be offered. Pentax's approach to flange distance makes as much sense as any, if not more.
I'm mostly with BC here (except that I can imagine it to actually be comfortable). And I still don't get the K-mount idea, except that they can start their mirrorless system now with a large existing lens portfolio. But a "real" mirrorless (with short flange distance), native lenses and K-mount adapter still sounds like a much better idea to me...
-- Markus
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[quote name='you2' timestamp='1328189026' post='15404']
Pentax cameras have always been relatively compact (compared to nikon or canon). From a business perspective this makes sense to me as it reduce their production cost (conversely increase margins). It also allows them to compete with true mirror-less systems from a marketing perspective. Yea - it is not as compact but then again is the fuji pro-1 that much smaller ?
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Camera systems with short flanged register distances only gain a size benefit when used together with a relatively small range of lenses, namely non-retrofocal shortish widish angle lenses. Ironically, that group of lenses also tend to be mediocre on typical digital sensors compared to their much longer retrofocal counterparts. Of course longer lenses (>45mm or so) are the same length from the image plane regardless of minor distance differences in register lengths. So there would be very little advantage to a short flange distance system except that the body sans lens is much more sexy and a set of sexy-small but crappy primes can be offered. Pentax's approach to flange distance makes as much sense as any, if not more.