On 7/19/06, Sylwester Pietrzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19.07.2006, at 11:06 , David Savage wrote: > > > They're cheaper because they're slower. > > > > I bet if they had made it f1.9, it would be similarly priced to > > it's full > > frame big brothers. Admittedly it would be physically larger & > > weightier as well
> Exactly - that's what we're talking about :-) Oh, OK. Sometimes it's hard to tell :-) > If they were faster > they wouldn't be "pancakes" - really small and affordable but > excellent optically and beautifully built lenses. That's the idea of > new Limiteds - highly portable set of top primes at the expense of > maximum aperture. > I hope that's not the case for any future limited lenses. If it is, then I doubt I'll buy any of them. I'm not tempted by either the 21 or 70. I want fast primes, not small. But that's just my preference. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
