The 400mm that was recently listed on the Pentax site is an A. The K 400 was replaced twice: first by an M, then by an A. Paul On Aug 7, 2006, at 10:09 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
> 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 >> >> >> > > > -- > When you're worried or in doubt, > Run in circles, (scream and shout). > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
