The DFA50 and 100 macro were early products, probably developed before final decisions had been made in regard to future directions. And the film *ist was still quite new then. Support was probably considered mandatory. That is no longer the case. Paul On Feb 24, 2007, at 8:10 AM, Thibouille wrote:
> OK, but why then taking efforts to produce DFA 50 and 100 Macro? > Weird. > And BTW, if what and the pics stays as it is, the 55 for 645 is not > marketed as DFA but as DFA645 (well that's what's written on it). > > So DFA would go the way of the dodo just FAJ? Time will tell. > > 2007/2/24, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> That message was already sent loud and clear with DA lenses replacing >> the out of production FA lenses. >> Paul >> On Feb 24, 2007, at 5:38 AM, Thibouille wrote: >> >>> Yeah they might but I still find that a bit strange (not that it is >>> unusual for Pentax). >>> They did introduced DFA and DFA serie is (was?) supposed to have a >>> clear caracteristics... >>> Might indeed be a message: No FF. >>> >>> 2007/2/24, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> On 2/23/07 8:10 PM, "Mark Roberts", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have heard that this is nothing more than a change in >>>>> nomenclature, >>>>> not in the coverage area of the lens. >>>> >>>> I am not aware of change in nomenclature but you might know >>>> something >>>> we >>>> don't. At these FLs, there is no reason to deliberately make the >>>> image >>>> circle smaller for the telecentric reason. So, they may have >>>> unified >>>> the >>>> nomenclature simply as Digital Auto. I might be able to find out. >>>> >>>> Ken >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Thibault Massart aka Thibouille >>> ---------------------- >>> K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >> > > > -- > Thibault Massart aka Thibouille > ---------------------- > K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... > > -- > 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
