When was it last time that Pentax released a telephoto lens!? 4 years ago - FA 400/5.6 ? (various cheap 300- zooms don't count). This is precisely the area where ultrasonic motors and image stabilization are a de facto standard. I'd like to believe that P is phasing out current lenses in order to introduce some new technology loaded long glass but I doubt that. Somehow it seems more likely that all we'll be left with are a heterogeneous and overlapping collection of cheap zooms...
Servus, Alin P.S. Leaving aside USM and IS how come P doesn't see a market for a quality ED 70-200/4? Ok, they gave up to 80-200/2.8 $1500 potential buyers but now $600 is too high a figure for the targeted consumers? SP> Too bad. So options for high-end lenses for Pentax are getting narrower... SP> Situtaion with 120-300/2.8 is exactly as I predicted a few years ago - this SP> Sigma was planned since day "0" as ultrasonic motor-driven lens. If Pentax SP> won't come with their own solution for this kind of AF drive, there will be SP> more and more new Sigmas not available in Pentax mount (Canon, Nikon and SP> even Minolta already have their USM solutions, used by Sigma to reverse SP> engineer and to build their equivalents). It probably doesn't make sense for SP> Sigma to build different mechanically (with screw-driven AF) version of the SP> lens that will sell in very small quantities in Pentax mount.
