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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-05-2019, 01:08 AM
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Like M.2 SSD's or mobile phone SoC's. Plenty of options, I think, to do something that enables compact, flexible and high-performance hardware plug-ins to enter the system.
Ricoh kind of went down that path with the now discontinued GX-R APS-C system. I'm not sure how practical it would be to to extend the GX-R concept into a DSLR system, however. But Ricoh have solid experience with that kind of modular system approach. So I wouldn't totally rule that out in future. :)
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-04-2019, 09:12 PM
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Would certainly help development timetables, economics - and usability too. The way buttons (eg image playback) on the back jumped around K3 to K-1 is a periodic nuisance for me.
The K-I II set a good example for the future, in my opinion, with the K-1 to K-1 II upgrade service. Keep the body, change selected hardware modules inside, upgrade firmware, add a new sticker to the body, voila!, new camera.
If Ricoh decided to choose a standard body design as the platform for all their future camera upgrades for 5 years (eg KP body for APS-C, K-1 body for FF) that wouldn't be a bad thing at all.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
01-31-2019, 12:05 AM
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FWIW, when tested on APS-C, lenstip.com found the vignetting to be similar wide open between the lenses: DAL 35 - -0.99 EV (29%) vs FA 35 0.79 EV (24%).
The visual samples I've seen of the DAL 35 on FF don't seem to show much of an issue in normal use.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
01-30-2019, 11:38 PM
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There was already the very budget DA 35 f2.4 AL: plastic fantastic but a decent lens and also FF OK by all accounts.
So now Pentax has four 30-mm ish full-frame compatible lenses that will be floating around stores for a while:
-the FA 31 f1.8,
-the DA 35 f2.4 AL,
-the FA 35 f2 (current model),
-the FA 35 f2 (new model).
Plus the Sigma 35 f1.4 still seems to be in production too.
Even Canon and Nikon users must be jealous :)
Now we need some wider (~20-28mm) full-frame primes pls Pentax.
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