Op Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:09:28 +0200 schreef John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Just someone who tracks the announcements a little more closely. > > The original Pentax lens roadmap did, indeed, show a 50-200 zoom. > In fact it showed two of them; the 50-200/f4-5.6 we've now seen, > and a later, more expensive (constant aperture) version. > It was only some time later on that the constant-aperture lens > transmogrified to a 50-135, rather than a 50-200. I believe the 'more expensive' one from the first roadmap transmogrified into the 60-250/4 rumour. The constant f/4 was never in the roadmap, it was only referred to as 'high performance D FA telezoom', IIRC. Someone on this list (Pal, Dag or Jostein?) claimed it had merely been postponed, not shelved. It'll be interesting to see whether Pentax will update the lens roadmap at Photokina. > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:49:08PM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> There you go. Correct information from someone not suffering from old- >> age short term memory loss:-). >> Paul >> On Aug 17, 2006, at 11:26 PM, John Francis wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:42:56PM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >> Pentax has some very nice new zooms. The DA 12-24/4 is excellent, as >> >> is the DA 16-45/4. Some more are on the horizon. I believe one of >> >> them is a 50-200/2.8. >> >> Paul >> > >> > The next two lenses are supposedly an 18-50/f2.8 and a 50-135/f2.8 >> > (both rumoured to have in-lens focussing motors of some kind). >> > >> > Beyond that I'm just beginning to hear talk of a 60-250 (probably >> > f4, not f2.8). If that's correct then I'd also expect to see some >> > wider zoom to complement it such as a 15-60. >> > >> > If the rumours of a new focussing system are true then I'd expect >> > both of these lenses to incorporate it. That would make the overlap >> > between the 16-45 and any new wide zoom (with 60mm at the long end) >> > a little more understandable. -- Regards, Lucas -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
