Umm, I guess you missed the entire lens production capacity issue that Pentax has been struggling with for the last 2 years? If they can't even keep their current production lenses reliably in stock, or manage to ship lenses announced 2 years ago, how the hell are they going to introduce a completely new set of FF zooms? Pentax would need a minimum of 3 new zooms (wide, normal, tele) to complement a new FF body for that body to be viable in the marketplace and they simply don't have the production capacity to make those lenses, even in the low volumes that a FF body would need (since its not like a FF body is going to sell in massive numbers anyways).
-Adam On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:37 PM, JC OConnell <[email protected]> wrote: > I said "camera systems" which means FF cameras AND lenses. > FF is not just about AOV, its about higher resolution and lower > noise at higher ISOs. This FF issue wont go away. > > Regarding FF lenses, they produced them for many many years, > I dont see any reason why they cant get back into them, its > not like they havent been there. If they put all their eggs > into the APS basket, they may have made a mistake. > > JC O'Connell > [email protected] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Adam Maas > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 7:14 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: FF pentax DSLR > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > 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.
