Amita Guha wrote: >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.
The odds of you getting these replies from someone who *really* knew about Tamron's long-term plans for supporting Pentax mount are very slim indeed. In fact, if the person(s) who wrote to you were on this side of the Pacific, I'd bet the odds are effectively zero. I also think that the Pentax market *is* going to pick up tremendously with cameras already appearing in places like Circuit City and the arrival of the K100D and soon the K10D (not to mention Samsung-branded cameras coming into circulation). -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
