Sony has an FF lens line. They purposely restricted their offering of their DT crop-specific lenses and maintained a better offering of FF lenses, even when the restrictions didn't make sense (the complete lack of a Sony-branded f2.8 normal zoom for the A700, despite the availability of the Tamron 17-50). And they've been openly showing off mockups of an FF body since PMA 2007. The A900's been an open secret for a long time (Body originally shown off in Feb 2007, sensor in Jan 2008), and official for a couple of months now.
-Adam On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Brendan MacRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sony now has a FF camera? > > <channeling Seth and Amy from SNL> > > Really, Pentax? You're going to allow Sony to jump > into the FF market ahead of you? Really? Sony? The > company that made the Walkman and the Betamax? I mean > you've been making SLR's since what, 1952? Sony's been > making them since...? Really? > > ;-] > > On the serious side, I don't really have much of a dog > in this race. FF isn't the end-all-be-all for me (and > some of the specs on the A900 aren't really that > impresive, ISO range and AF). And yes, yes, yes...I > realize that Sony has all the money in the world to > put into R&D and production. And we all know about > Pentax's marketing strategy and pro-sumer bias right > now, but for whatever reason a FF Sony camera being > out there without a Pentax rival chaps my hide a bit. > > I should remember the thing is going to cost $3000. > Makes me feel a little bit better. > > K, I'm done. > > -Brendan > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > 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.
