Jens Bladt wrote on 15.02.06 16:57: > I don't believe that. Any manufacturer is in it for the money! > I just don't belive it's profitable to make them with Pentax mount. The > Tamron AF 200-500mm is not available in K-mount either. But the old MF was > (very rare). I guess there's just not enough K-mount buyers. So they just > make them for Canon and Nikon - which probably covers 90% of the market. Or > perhaps Pentax just paid Tamron not to ;-) Pentax and Tamron has been > coopereating before, since Tamron manufactured certain Pentax lenses. I can understand lack of 200-500 and 180 in K-mount as they are expensive lenses and Sigma makes the ones with very similar parameters, but 17-50/2,8 would be very popular among Pentax DSLR users. If Tamron did it in Minolta mount and KM DSLRs has sold in lesser quantities than Pentax ones then... But of course Pentax makes some remarkable DA lenses (DA 16-45, DA 14, DA 12-24) while KM only sold Tamron's clones of htier WA angles for DSLRs and KM never had high quality standard zoom like DA 16-45/4 for their DSLRs.
-- Balance is the ultimate good... Best Regards Sylwek
