Yeah I follow this paranoid line of thinking quite well and agree. Pentax is not so foolish as to deliberately shoot themselevs in the foot, all the time. When they don't have the special digital optimized lenses, the legacy glass is a reason to buy their new bodies. When 90% or more of their production is APS-C, then the legacy lenses are not as good. For the 645, the legacy lenses must by pronounced as superior.
If 135mm format body comes out sometime, unless they have new lenses to go with it, the legacy glass will once again be elevated to a higher status, and will still surely held up as a reson for purchase. I guess it gets down to any image taken through a lens, looks better than one taken without one. On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Joseph Tainter <jtain...@mindspring.com> wrote: > I guess I've gotten suspicious as I've gotten older. > > About a year or so ago some Pentax officials, including Ned Bunnell and some > fellow in Japan, began "dissing" the old full-frame lenses. Ned Bunnell said > that they weren't good enough for digital, except maybe for the FA 31. The > official in Japan said something similar. The following occurred to me: > > --The synchronization between Ned Bunnell's statement on his blog site and > the statement in Japan seemed curious, if not suspicious. You don't suppose > these statements were planned, do you? > > --It seemed even more curious that, six years after Pentax introduced its > first DSLR, the company suddenly began criticizing its own 35 mm lenses. It > didn't occur to them to voice this criticism during the intervening six > years. Furthermore, the criticism of the old lenses came out of the blue. It > wasn't in response to any questions. > > My suspicion: Pentax is getting closer to announcing a DSLR with a 24 x 36 > sensor, and wants to prepare us to have to buy new lenses for it. The old > ones aren't good enough. > > It's curious also that they haven't "dissed" any of their 645 lenses. > > Joe > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
