On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I looked at Boz's page yesterday. Seems that almost every lens except the
DA has been discontinued or is out of production.
I would recommend a look at the Pentax Japan site; link circulated by
Godfrey earlier. If I wanted (for example) a black limited or a 2.8
zoom and needed to buy new I would look there.
Only SIX primes are
shown as being in production (if i counted right), and eleven zooms. All
but one of the zooms is faster than an F4.0, and that's a 3.5. I don't
think there was a constant aperture in the bunch.
16-45, 20-35 and the FAs,* from memory are in that list. I still see
no answer as to the problem with variable aperture lenses.
Primes in the 2.0 - 2.8 range are certainly slow, at least by the standards
of some people.
There were/are a few Pentax lenses in the sub-2.0 range; what focal
length concerns you and how much money have you got?
There is a known difficulty with Pentax lenses at the moment. Things
may get better. I accept donations of depressingly slow, 2.0 and 2.8
Pentax kit; please contact me off-line if interested.
Kostas
