Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 10:44:45 PM, Alan wrote:
AC> Canon in Nov, Nikon in Dec; no Minolta or Pentax. The 12-24/4 is 90,000yen,
AC> the street price should be around US$600 in the US I think.
That's interesting news and great price. f/4 aperture is barely
workable at this FL, but still way better than the Sigma or Tamron
4.5-5.6 lenses (that's totally unusable for me). Tokina always made
nice fixed aperture zooms, although I found the pre-digital ones
weren't so great on digital cameras (at least the two samples I tried,
which doesn't tell anything about the rest of them).
Perhaps they may do the Pentax version later, hopefully. Or Pentax
will redo their excellent 20-35/4 for APS format? That would be even
better I think.
Good light!
fra
