I've heard and seen the opposite. B&H, Adorama, and others cant seem to
keep them in stock, and they are selling at new prices. I dont think
Pentax is building them fast enough, or they are using some type of just
in time manufacturing scheme to avoid oversupplying the lenses and
having excess inventory. I also suspect that they are attempting to
replace many of their lens line with a DA line to better fit the digital
market, witness the 14mm DA, 16-45DA, 50 2.8 macro DA, 100mm macro DA,
various 18-xxx DA zooms, and the upcoming 12-24 DA, which I really want!
Try bidding on a FA 50 1.4 lens on ebay, I've seen them sell for more
than new! Scan some previous threads discussing this insanity. I think
Don pointed out a K24mm2.8 that sold for a ridiculous amount recently.
rg
J. C. O'Connell wrote:
The K/M lenses are high priced on ebay?
Have you looked at new lenses from pentax
cost. They sell for less than new cost,
substantially less. I think your assumption
that they are all going on DSLRS is not
warranted, wheres the proof? That would
fall into the "unknown" category in my
opinion. But one thing is certain, there
will be even more demand for then if and when
pentax comes out with and upgraded DSLR
that supports ALL bayonet FF lens features including
K/M lenses.
jco
-----Original Message-----
From: Gonz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)
Actually, the high price of lenses on ebay, even for K/M versions,
indicates that there is high demand for them. Why? Not because people
are putting them on their film cameras. Film is dead. ;) Because people
have just bought a *D, *DS, or *DL. That means that those people are
going to use them on a digital camera that has by some opinions,
rendered them useless. Why the discrepancy? I believe that the vast
majority of the people are content with the fix provided by Pentax,
otherwise the value of K/M lenses would be way below what we are seeing.
The market speaks for itself.
rg
J. C. O'Connell wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Pål Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sure, but most don't want old lenses.
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I don’t think AGE has anything to do with
lens purchases or utility . You buy for
image quality, focal lengths, speeds,
coating types, bulky or compactness, features like manual or auto
focus, metering capability, etc. You don’t
buy or not buy a lens based on what year it
was made. It may sound like nit picking but
its hard to tell if you are just stereotyping
all the KM lenses as all unwanted because they are
missing AF or something. Sometimes the features
they have are MORE important than some new
feature they don’t have like AF to the buyer so AGE
is not really ever the issue. Features and performance
are and why I disagree that PENTAX should totally
abandon key features of the KM lenses ( over 9 million of them
by your last post?) at this time....
JCO
