Digital BW, The Print

That is a spectacularly pessimistic view of the situation.

You're only affected by the issue if you shoot more wide angle than 
telephoto.

And if you are affected, then we're talking about one new lens, not a 
whole new outfit!

Every other lens you own will still work, it just has a smaller field of 
view than when used with 35mm.

In article <00d801c31e50$1fbe5490$0a00000a@...>, 
anthony@... (Anthony Atkielski) wrote:

> They are not adapted to digital; they are adapted to a small frame size.
> Kind of like ... APS.
> 
> There's no fixed link between frame size and digital or film.
> 
> I wonder whether these special lenses are a tacit admission that 
> full-frame
> 35mm digital is technically difficult right now, or just a covert 
> effort to
> force digital photographers to buy a completely new set of lenses just 
> to
> accommodate the smaller image size.
> 
> Either way, it's bad enough when one must drop thousands just to buy the
> camera body; now one must buy all new lenses, too!  Every day, digital
> photography looks more and more like the "upgrade each month" syndrome 
> that
> has afflicted the computer world for decades.  Great for manufacturers, 
> but
> very, very grim news for photographers.
>