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From: "Tom Reese"
Subject: Re: Sent My Brother to the Dark Side
I still don't know about this. In my mind, these lenses have too many
custom
parts for them to bother making a single lens. The lens barrels, the
focusing helixes, the diaphragm mechanisms etc have to be different. I
can't
see Pentax going to their supplier and ordering one of each to build a
single A 15mm lens. I can see them producing a batch of fifty or so but I
don't think they'd bother for an older model that has been replaced in the
lineup.
Like I said, it's an interesting idea.
I can't see them keeping several hundred A15mm lenses in a warehouse in
Tokyo either.
For what I paid for my 15mm lens, I could well imagine it being a one off
sample.
William Robb
