I don't think you guys get it. Pentax makes money selling lenses. They have been crippled by having too much good product already in consumer hands.
So now digital comes along and the crop changes. This is a great opportunity to replace the whole lens line-up with new stuff. The consumer will buy new (good for Pentax) and get modern, lightweight, autofocus designs. Pentax will get more income and lose the burden of all this backward compatibility. Once the 1.5X crop factors lens line is complete, and everybody is buying them, Pentax will launch the Full Frame camera and switch back to full frame lenses. But now the full frame stuff will be lightweight, autofocus with focus touch-up, and no messy aperture settings. So in the next 10 years, you will need to purchase 2 new, complete lines of lenses. The first is just coming out now... fast, zooms, some with USM's and highly praised. The second will come out once we get to a Full Frame sensor. The features will be updated, and of course they will cover a full frame sensor. It's just strategy folks, nothing personal... Regards, Bob S. On Dec 7, 2007 8:51 AM, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The FA Limiteds are once again widely available, but have been for a > number of months. Along with the D-FA macros and maybe the FA 50/1.4 > these are the ONLY FF lenses with a future, as the replacement for the > FA 35/2 is on the roadmap, and the DA* 55 may replace the FA 50. > > 5 primes do not a lens line make. > > -Adam > > > On 12/7/07, Roman Melihhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While other FA lenses has been eliminated from the stock of Estonian > > local Pentax retailer - Photopoint, I'd found today 2 full-frame FA 31mm > > f1.8 and FA 77mm f1.8 Limited lenses added. This could be a sign of next > > pentax be either FF or larger than APS-C cropped sensor built or just > > coincidence and increasing pentaxian population demands better lenses > > for their bodies. > > > > These two are amazing pieces of glass anyway. > > > > > > -- > > fashion, models and gadgets once and again... 4models.info > > <http://www.4models.info> > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > > -- > M. Adam Maas > http://www.mawz.ca > Explorations of the City Around Us. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
