Ricoh-Pentax - do we have a new ball game?

If I had a guess then the zip has been applied to their lips (grin).

Might we expect another announcement soon?

Can zip my lips as well any day.

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anthony mazzeri said:

Tom Caldwell said:

However there is no reason why we cannot get a sub-set fairly soon and enough to keep us well amused for quite a few years to come.

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The change of ownership won't even be finalized until October so we can't really be expecting anything for the rest of the year other than existing projects that were already in the pipeline for both companies, such as the launch of the Q and the GXR zoom and M-mount units, maybe the K-r successor.

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Thanks Anthony, will go back to sleep.

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Godfrey said:

Manual focus K, M and A series Pentax lenses have no electronics to connect to and have an aperture ring so for them a dumb adapter is simple and cheap.....

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just a small correction, for whom it may concern: Pentax A lenses have electrical contacts

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kuuan said:

Godfrey said:

Manual focus K, M and A series Pentax lenses have no electronics to connect to and have an aperture ring so for them a dumb adapter is simple and cheap.....

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just a small correction, for whom it may concern: Pentax A lenses have electrical contacts

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A-series lenses have a set of electrical contacts but no electronics, Andreas. The electrical contacts represent a few bits of data which tell the body the lens maximum aperture and whether the aperture ring is set to the "A" position, that's all. Bojidar Dmitrov documents how it works here:

http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/technology/K-mount/Ka.html

The KA mount specifics pre-dated "smart" lenses by several years.

Later lenses and bodies re-used the electrical contacts in a clever way to transmit lens MTF data to the body for MTF optimized program line metering evaluation ... those lenses (F, FA, D-FA series) have electronics in them.
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