Quoting Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Most manufacturers are building the APS sized lenses just on the > really wide end to deal with size and cost. On the longer end, there > is not much need to do so.
Yep. The new pancake lens (40mm) is a 'digital only', although this hardly qualifies as 'really wide'. Still a neat way to convert an *ist-D into a compact. Although a new pancake with a 35mm image circle would be more welcome: SFAIK there isn't even an SMC-A version, only SMC-M. It's curious that in the last few months Pentax have announced the 100mm and 50mm macros, and a new version of the Pancake lens. Maybe part of their strategy is to analyse which of their SMC-M, A and FA lenses are most sought after secondhand and make new, 'digital friendly' versions? We might see a kind of 'digital repeat' of the most successful period in their 35mm history (mid 70s to mid 80s??? or is that contraversial???) Works for me ... David
