Pentax needs some "consumer grade" lenses in order to be price competitive and in order to have some lenses that match the focal range of other companies. As long as they keep putting out a higher end product Pentax can, afaic, put out a bunch of consumer lenses. And, as it's turned out, a number of the Pentax consumer lenses have been pretty good according to people here on the list. The current 50~200 seems to be an example of that, and the 18~55 kit lens is well regarded for a bottom-of-the-line-entry-level lens by a lot of people - it's certainly a good value, more so than similar lenses from N and C and 3rd party manufacturers.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Thibouille > > Mmm 55-300 looks afwully consumer Sigma-like lens. Hope Pentax will do > magic. Pentax probably needs lens like that (unfortunately maybe, I > dunno). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
