I'd tend to agree overall. Pentax is not in the position Nikon, Sony and Canon are in, where most of the lens line, especially high-end lenses, are full frame and much of the lens line just doesn't match crop bodies well. Pentax has had to essentially redo its entire lens line since the *istD was launched and now has a lineup which is overwhelmingly DX-specific. Thus, like Olympus, they need to concentrate on what they can do with the system they've brought.
Personally, despite the fact I now shoot with a system that offers FF, and that most of my lenses are FF designs (I own 2 DX lenses out of dozen or so F mount lenses I own) I'm not planning to go FF anytime soon and in fact just bought a second crop camera (A D40, for light carry). And this is despite the fact that both of the Nikon FX bodies primary advantages over the DX bodies (Better high ISO, better wide-angle) apply to what I do. The main reason is simply cost. Replacing my Sigma 10-20 is not economic if I also have to buy a $3000 body as the only Nikon-mount wide zoom that's both as wide on FX as the 10-20 is on DX and is as sharp and colourful is the massive and expensive 14-24. -Adam On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Thibouille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Never competitive I dunno but they do really fine with APS-C IMO and > launching an FF now when they have problem wuth production capacity of > current lenses would laughable, that's for sure. > > BTW I don't care much about FF. It would be nice but that's it, it > won't prevent me from either sleeping or taking pictures. > > -- > Thibault Massart aka Thibouille > ---------------------- > Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... > Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB > Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) > > -- > 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.
