I have recently become frustrated by the fact that a couple of third-party lenses I like are not available in Pentax mount. Yesterday, I emailed Tamron to ask them if their 17-50 f/2.8 would someday be available for Pentax, and they said no. When I wrote back to ask if they would consider releasing one if they got enough letters, they wrote back and said that the Pentax market would have to pick up "tremendously" in order for them to release the lens in that mount.
I'm confused by two things here. 1) the lens I want is the cropped version of their 28-75 f/2.8, a superb lens which is available for Pentax, and I told them that 2) They released this lens for MINOLTA, which has, what, three users? For some reason, this episode is really sticking in my craw. I realize that I should have a better reason to want to switch systems (need a more capable body, etc.) but it's very tempting right now for me to start thinking about building a Canon system when Nate has a spare 20D that I can use. And then there is the fact of Pentax' slow R&D, but that hasn't bothered me too much yet since I've been pretty happy with the *istD. I probably wouldn't abandon Pentax completely, at least not at first, but I'd probably start slowly with a couple of C*non-mount lenses I like. Has anyone else has made the jump this way? And am I overreacting? This is the first time I've given serious thought to switching. Thanks, Amita -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
