there are only a few Canon EF-S lenses, a macro and three wide zooms. if you
believe that full frame is where real DSLRs ought to be, then there is only
need for some wider lenses to keep the APS-C users happy. the rest are going
to continue to be full frame at the conventional focal lengths of film
cameras. Pentax has signaled with their lens announcements that they are
going to stay with APS-C for quite a while. so has Nikon, especially if two
new lenses in the rumor mill as being imminent are going to show up. they
have some high priced, high performance DX lenses already as well as the
cheap ones, and the rumored ones appear to be high priced as well. one is a
9mm rectilinear wide angle. it's less clear what Konica Minolta is up to,
but they have announced a few wide lenses that work only on the digital
bodies. a lot of lenses designed when only film cameras existed still work
well and most of them still fit into a reduced size sensor lens kit just
fine. some of them don't work well though, and they need to be redesigned to
work both on film and digital bodies. what Pentax has released, announced,
or placed on a roadmap, will accommodate a very large portion of their
users' needs. the DA gaps i see are a full frame fisheye, a lesser expensive
30-ish f1.7-1.4, a moderately priced 9-10mm wide angle, and a f2.8 version
of the 16-45.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 3:00 AM
Subject: RE: Pentax DSLR future
I geuss Canon makes both full frame and APS sized sensors/cameras. Doesn't
this mean (at least) two lines of lenses?
