Nikon D7100: DX With A Twist?

As I am sure most of you know, Nikon announced a new high end DX camera: the D7100. There are many interesting features about the new camera that I will be discussing in an upcoming article. Right now,  however, I only want to bring up one interesting feature: the 1.3 crop mode. In this mode, the camera uses a 15MP area of the 24MP sensor and has an effective crop factor of 2. Does this sound familiar in any way? That’s right! It is the crop factor of the m4/3 sensor cameras.

What if someone provided an adapter that allowed mounting m4/3 lenses on the D7100? Suddenly, a huge selection of moderately sized, moderately priced, high quality lenses would become available to the Nikon DX shooter. It would most certainly be a case of manual focus, but it might just be worth it. I would certainly snap up a few super wide angle primes, a few very fast primes and a small telephoto or two… How about you? Do you thing that would be a feature you would take advantage of?