Sylwek,
You are right about Pentax. The availability of the Sigma 120-300 lens is the one thing that has caused me to seriously consider switching to Nikon or Canon. The majority of my current shooting is my son's soccer which is often at night. I have an 80-200 f2.8 but it is just not long enough to reach the entire field adequately. The 120-300 would accomplish this. I have a 100-300 but it is an f4 and that just isn't fast enough for the night games. I have made do with what I have but often wonder if switching would be better. So far the *istD has kept me at the Pentax home.
Larry
Thank you for your inquiry. At this time we are aware of no plans todevelop Pentax (or Minolta) models of the 120-300mm F2.8 lens. Also, the 300mm F2.8 EX lens is being phased out of production.
Sincerely
So if you had been thinking about the 300 f2.8 I would start to think harder about it.
I don't know if anyone cares but I just thought I would pass it along.
Too bad. So options for high-end lenses for Pentax are getting narrower... Situtaion with 120-300/2.8 is exactly as I predicted a few years ago - this Sigma was planned since day "0" as ultrasonic motor-driven lens. If Pentax won't come with their own solution for this kind of AF drive, there will be more and more new Sigmas not available in Pentax mount (Canon, Nikon and even Minolta already have their USM solutions, used by Sigma to reverse engineer and to build their equivalents). It probably doesn't make sense for Sigma to build different mechanically (with screw-driven AF) version of the lens that will sell in very small quantities in Pentax mount.
-- Best Regards Sylwek
