K.Takeshita wrote on 28.02.06 16:05: > Actually, I was thinking the same thing, perhaps with some wishful thinking > (remember, it's a "silly season" :-). But I did not post it for the fear of > raising the blood pressure of some PDMLers unnecessarily. Now that you said > it.... Exactly. It is speculation, but there are some traces that can lead to such a conclusion :-)
> So, what's "more functions"? Hope it's not going back to PZ :-). > I am not sure if the fast DA zoom was any indication but Pentax must be > doing something quietly, revamping their whole lens lineup. Sudden > disappearance of FA lenses and increased capacity of their main Vietnam lens > factory by 160% this fall might be some indication. > Mystery deepens. Well, for me introducing new pro-grade USM equipped f2.8 zooms together with new higher class DSLR makes sense. If they have ANY plans to introduce USM driven lenses why wasting resources to build traditionally screw driven expensive lenses which are usually not changed by newer models that often??? Of course these lenses can have traditional AF drive, but that would mean that USM driven ones won't apear soon. Another small clue is that they haven't shown mount of new D, and AF-C/AF-S/MF switch has radically different build and this is a part of AF system in Pentax camera. Nothing that could convince me that USM will come, but... ;-) -- Balance is the ultimate good... Best Regards Sylwek
