I tend to agree with you Jim. I find it hard to beleave that the DA is a genuine Pentax design. Mainly because it came out of nowhere. It never showed up at the ens map, and was not preannounced in any other way. The fact that it lacks QS also point in that direction.
MaritimTim 2008/5/10 Jim King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tim Øsleby wrote on Sat, 10 May 2008 09:12:37 -0700 > >> Specwise the Pentax is the same as the Tamron, eccept for the coating. >> Accoding to the Norwegian distributor the DA is a Pentax design. I >> don't know what they mean by this, I just report what I was told by >> them. > > Tim, I don't doubt that you were told this, but I have the Pentax > version of this lens, and when I compared the reflected > color from the front elements with that from other Pentax and Tamron > zooms in my collection, I found it to look quite > different from the Pentax lenses and quite similar to the Tamron > lenses. I don't think that the coating is Pentax SMC. > Having compared the specs, optical diagrams, and photos of both > lenses, it appears to me that the Pentax is a rebadge > of the Tamron, with cosmetic changes to the rubber rings, different > labeling, and a Pentax-style lens hood. The Pentax > is even marked, "Made in Japan,", and all other DA lenses are marked, > "Made in Viet Nam." If I were a betting man I'd > lay odds that Tamron makes this lens for Pentax. > Regards, Jim > -- > 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. > -- MaritimTim -- 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.
