You can't sell cameras without lenses. And Pentax is having enough issues producing lenses for its current lineup (see all the delays on new lenses getting to market, especially the 60-250). And no, those 12 million 50mm f2's out there on the used market are not a viable replacement for a proper FF lens lineup. Pentax can't put out a camera that has to rely on the used marketplace for lenses if it wants that camera to sell(Used Pentax lenses that aren't 28mm, 50mm or 135mm are hard enough to get as it is)
Pentax may put out a FF body. But not until they're ready to launch a FF lens lineup again. The only way I could see them doing so today would be to do a 'Limited' body to match the FA Limited lenses. But then buyers would be stuck with Pentax's tiny range of FF lenses (which comes down to the FA Limiteds, D-FA macros and a couple other holdovers) -Adam On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:42 PM, JC OConnell <[email protected]> wrote: > Pentax has offer camera systems that keep up with > the photo marketplace, not just their own current lens lineups... > > JC O'Connell > [email protected] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Adam Maas > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:10 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: FF pentax DSLR > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:58 PM, JC OConnell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Now that Canon, Nikon, and Sony (sony?) >> all have FF (24x36mm) DSLRs, can pentax be far behind? >> I cant believe Sony beat them to that punch. >> >> JC O'Connell >> [email protected] >> > > Pentax's lens line is almost entirely crop-oriented. Sony's lens lineup > (inherited from Minolta and new designs) is almost entirely FF oriented. > And Sony is a major sensor designer. And Sony'd all but announced an FF > body back at PMA 2007. It's actually more surprising that Nikon beat > Sony to the punch than Sony beating Pentax. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
