Or it could be that Pentax is lower on the priority list than Canon or Nikon, and they got the profiles from Pentax later.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Matthew Hunt <m...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Stan Halpin > <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > >>> How you omit the kit lens from the initial release, I'll never understand. >> >> Two possibilities occur to me. One is that the kit lens is so good that >> minimal correction is needed. Second is that Pentax and/or Adobe may be >> assuming that purchasers of a body with kit lens are not necessarily the >> consumers who will immediately rush out and buy sophisticated >> post-processing and cataloging tools. > > I'm more inclined to go with a "not giving enough of a damn about > Pentax to think it through" explanation. > > Your first hypothesis is unlikely; they provide profiles for better > lenses than the kit lens. > > The second hypothesis may be true, but it gets the conditional > probabilities backwards. Even if people with the kit lens are less > likely to buy Lightroom, I'm sure there are more Lightroom owners who > use the kit lens than, say, the DA*55 or 15/4. > > -- > 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. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
