Every camera maker has been doing this for decades. Tokina made one of Nikon's pro telephoto lenses as well as many of their lens mounts and consumer zooms in the '90s.
Pentax's 28-200 was a Tamron, wasn't it? -Aaron -----Original Message----- From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: RE: Pentax Outsourcing Optical Design Date: Thu Mar 2, 2006 12:14 pm Size: 568 bytes To: [email protected] That's one of the reasons why brand loyalty is more or less a thing of the past. IMO. Aren't a number of the P&S digitals actually a Sanyo product? Not that Tokina, can't make great lenses. We just shouldn't be referring to it as "Pentax glass". Tom C. >From: Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Pentax Outsourcing Optical Design >Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:06:01 -0700 > >Gang, you have to see this if you haven't yet: > >http://www.tokina.co.jp/news/tokina2006.jpg > >Joe >
