Originally posted by monochrome So you shoot a 40-year-old defunct film mount, a mount that sells 5,000 Units a year and believe K-mount doesn’t meet your single needs. Therefore Pentax should abandon (or redirect precious development resources from)‘the only distinctive feature of its entire system and align with an external mount controlled by some other company, and this decision will cause Pentax to thrive?
I’m skeptical. Far better you should shoot a specialty action camera and leave K-mount for the current user profile.
Yes i shoot a miniature film format for fun, and its easy to take away for trips where space is a premium and it is discreet as heck, the 645 i use for landscape and portraits, my ME Super, currently being used by a friend because I wasn't using it, and my friend wanted to shoot film.
M43 suits my needs because the gear is small, light weight, which when riding mountain bikes 5 miles into a rally stage, or spending days at airshows is a major plus, yet still delivers excellent AF, i can shoot @ 10+ fps plus excellent video. Can Pentax offer me that, not yet, am i hopeful, you bet.
But to shoot an 'Action Camera' would not suit me, because by definition an 'action camera' would be a goPro type camera. A better definition would be a system that is sport orientated, which M43 is.
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Originally posted by reh321 I don't understand how switching to an unfamiliar {to their engineers) mount could possibly get you faster burst rate.
Its not just about the burst rate, going to what is becoming an Open system, in that Leica have said they would love more partners and users of the system, offers better support for the mount in that you have multiple manufacturers making lenses, and if you have several different companies producing bodies, it will aid development of the system in the bodies, so AF performance etc will get improved because more people are developing around the specification of the Lens mount.
If it was easy to use a current mount on a mirrorless system, would Canon and Nikon not have stuck to their mounts for their new systems, you can bet your last dollar they would have, but no, they had to develop a new lens mount, and develop adapters for users to use their legacy mounts.