Originally posted by emr I dare not even think about a FF Pentax EVIL with K mount.
Think about it. Hope for it. Cast ritual incantations for it. Send petitions to Pentax-Hoya demanding it. Spread the word about. But hold not thy breath.
Originally posted by tokyoso realistically a lot of pentax users have been waiting for a FF. that's most likely a bigger money generator for pentax if they do indeed come up with one.
Agreed. But I could be wrong. That's happened. Occasionally. Like yesterday. Anyway, what I've read from the Pentax Faithful, here and elsewhere, is a strong desire for (or obsession with) a K-FF-D, something worthy of hanging old Takumars upon. The best of all worlds! Paradise on Earth! Eat THAT, Canikony!!
But wait. Have old Taks and the like been fitted to Canikony FF dSLRs? What are the results? Have old Taks the resolution and quality to fill a ~25mpx frame? Are old Pentax glass... GOOD ENOUGH? (Wait, don't lynch me, let me finish!)
And even if Asahi optics make the grade, how about the other FF glass we so fondly cherish and use, the Vivs and Meyers and Sigs and Jupiters and Chinons and Mamiyas, et al? Will lenses made for Kodachrome and Plus-X and Agfacolor deliver sufficient IQ for those massive sensors? If not, how much will your legacy glass be worth? Do you really want to find out, the hard way?
The lynch mob is coming. I see the torches, the tar, the feathers. I must run now.