I remember the outstanding commercial of a faucet company with a name like Kohler or another brand. A valued customer brings in a a wonderful faucet that looks like a piece of art to an architecture company. The valued customer take out and carefully place the valued piece of faucet design on the table and have one single request to the architect -- design your masterpiece around this faucet. In a similar way of commercial flow of logic and idea, I ask Pentax to design a compact dSLR that is worthy of my beautiful 2 Million Dollar Crumpler Bag which is small, compact, stylish, comfortable, speak volume in its presence for the owner and has a soul of its kind for personal gadget in storage.
Prototype of the camera request is using my Pentax SuperProgram, an excellent 35mm film SLR camera, mounted with Pentax DA 21mm f/3.2 limited, a pancake of thin size lens, for the ideal size of an compact dSLR that will fit my beloved Crumpler small size bag.
Illustration photos were shot with Pentax K20D and Pentax DA 35mm f/2.8 1:1 macro limited
I would hopefully find out soon how the digital DA 21mm work on my SuperProgram without an aperture ring and the mechanics of choosing the aperture as in a digital body as my Pentax K20D. Few has mentioned wide open aperture metering. As soon as I manage to figure out what 400 b&w 35mm films will go well with the test. Please let me know of your favorite b&w film that is inexpensive and easy to try out on a HinTheMan's budget which is starting low and gradually experiment to find that best bang for the bucks.
Update:
- results are reported in Pentax DA 21mm f/3.2 limited on FF bodies (results)
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3 comments:
I love mine SuperProgram, but I'm using it with smc-M 20mm f4 lens. Too bad that A vesion of 20mm was only made with f2.8. What is the frame coverage of the DA21?
Thanks for the comment. I would not know until I shot a roll of film in trying out. It seems the lens may meter wide open as others have told me. In the viewfinder, I don't see the obvious vignetting as seen in putting a Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 on a film body such as Pentax P-Z1 when I tried it before without film loaded.
Please let us know about the results of the test. I believe the DA should work as an "A" lens in A position and SuperProgram should be able to control it. At least my SuperA does (but only with genuine Pentax lenses, I had no luck with Sigma). You can choose Tv mode on the camera and control the aperture value indirectly by forcing the shutter value.
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