On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:03:00 +0100, DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd give it a few months more to decide. If they are going to introduce > USM lenses it will be a logical explanation for why they have stopped > producing a lot of long lenses. They may be planning to revive them > with USM.
I'm sure they will introduce more long lenses - they can't afford not to. At the moment, the lens line-up is unbalanced; there is lots of stuff below 50mm, and very little above 100mm. Whether the new long lenses will be USM or just small, light, DA versions remains to be seen, but if they are USM it certainly makes sense not to announce them until after there is a camera body that they can work with. I would be most surprised if there are not new 200mm, 300mm, 400mm and 600mm primes within two years. And, of course, the fast zooms have already been announced. John > DagT > >> Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You know I am getting seriously tempted to jump ship, from Canon back to >> Pentax. Being able to have AS with ALL lenses is very, very attractive. >> >> I only wish Pentax had some good new autofocus telephoto zooms. All the >> good >> ones seem to be old ones, and/or manual focus ones. I really like >> autofocus >> considering my eyes are older and all that. And I really like zooms. >> Pentax only >> seems to have one in their new line up, the 50-200. Maybe I am missing >> something. >> >> But it does seem Canon is good on telephoto zooms and Pentax is good on >> wide >> angle zooms. >> >> I just don't wide angle that much. And I don't care what old farts say >> ;-) >> (some old farts, me being one too), autofocus and zooms are nice. >> >> Marnie aka Doe Debating my options. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
