On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:55 AM Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 6/1/2020 5:26 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > I’m thinking $1700. It will be priced reasonably. It has to be to support > > the brand. > > Amazon.com has it available for preorder for you. As I said in a > previous post, it is US$1899.95. I was off by ninety five cents. > B&H and Adorama may sell it for a bit less, but I can't see it going for > $1700.00. > > If you look at the MTF charts, this lens is quite a bit better superior > to the Zeiss Otis 85/1.4 which doesn't have auto focus and sells for > US$4.5K. > > At F8, it doesn't have an MTF curve, it has a slightly wavy straight > line clinging to the top of the graph. I've never seen anything like > that before. > The sample pictures I have seen are stunning. > > My pusher emailed me today that it's available for ordering, so mine is > on it's way. I expect it to arrive sometime in the third week of this month.
I am very happy to see this arrive as it opens up the option for me to add a K-1, 50mm and 85mm as a unified kit to backup / alternate to my 645Z kit. I'd really like to have a body with a second focal length mounted on it ready to grab during shooting and my trusty old K-3 just isn't cutting it anymore. -- -bmw -- 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.
