On Oct 1, 2007, at 10:45 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > If you remember, Godfrey, FAJ 18-35 used to be a kit lens for *istD > when > it first came out. > > No, there is nothing confusing about it. It is just that the > definition > of what exactly is FA, FAJ, DA, D FA lens is a little blurred to me.
Actually, I don't remember that. I entered the Pentax system world shortly after the introduction of the *ist DS, when the kit lens was the DA18-55 and the DA16-45 was the upgrade model. Fitting the FA-J 18-35 as a kit lens on the *ist D sounds like "we need to get this out to market and this is the most appropriate kit lens we have on the shelf right now" kind of thing. I still don't know why there's any confusion about that the mounts mean. Any mount with a "D" in its name means the lens was designed with the DSLRs in mind. The FA series pre-dated them and were designed for the film cameras. Format coverage is not relevant to mount designation since all the lenses cover the DSLR line, which is all Pentax is producing now. Nikon and Canon have needed to designate format coverage with their mounts since they have continued to produce multiple formats. If Pentax starts to also produce a larger format digital camera based on the K-mount, they'll likely have a set of D series lenses that are marked with a designator for the larger format. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
