Many K lenses were also listed as current at the Pentax Japan site,
until just recently, I can't remember exactly which ones they were but
there were a couple of mirrors the shift 28mm an 400mm struck my eye. I
can't check now, both those sites were revamped about 1 year ago and the
lens lineups have been seriously culled.
Aaron Reynolds wrote:
>On Aug 7, 2006, at 9:29 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
>
>
>
>>There were K lenses listed as current on the Pentax USA website when
>>the
>>Film *ist was introduced and every high end body, including the MZ-S
>>disappeared. True most were special purpose, but you can't say they
>>didn't do that to current catalog items. The old days are dead long
>>live the New Pentax, they're a marketing company just like everybody
>>else.
>>
>>
>
>Which lenses were these, out of curiosity? New old stock at Pentax
>USA, or current, in-production lenses? As far as I understand it,
>there hasn't been a non-A lens in actual production for a very, very
>long time, regardless of what Pentax USA had in their warehouse.
>
>Just because a company has an item in a warehouse and brand new, that
>doesn't prevent it from being old. For instance, this year I bought a
>brand-new SMC-F 50mm f1.4 from Pentax Canada. How old is the F, 20
>years? Would I be howling in complaint if I bought what I knew was a
>20 year old lens and tried to mount it on a body that I knew didn't
>fully support it because it was 20 years old? No -- I realize that not
>everything is forever.
>
>I don't see how a company that is making both new bodies and new
>lenses, especially new specialty lenses like the Limited lineup, can be
>"a marketing company".
>
>Clearly you have a problem with the lack of support for lenses that you
>can buy cheap, secondhand. I'll not hazard a guess as to your age, but
>even if you had bought them new 30 years ago, would you not agree that
>you'd got your money's worth out of them by this point?
>
>I'm surprised that people aren't whining that Pentax's new bodies don't
>magically add autofocus to their screwmount stuff.
>
>-Aaron
>
>
>
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