I was poking around in the silly hope that the various colors of K-x
announced for Europe would be coming to the states. As most people
expected, there weren't really any announcements from Pentax, though
Sigma seems to have announced some lenses that could be rather
interesting if they have good image quality for the cost. Fast glass
is always appealing to me.
My 20/1.8 is back from Sigma and the nasty bumpiness in the focus may
be gone. Time will tell, and I've been happy with the optics on it.
85/1.4 http://www.dpreview.com/news/1002/10022015sigma85mm.asp
I've been surprised at how often the 2/3 stop of 1.4 over 1.8 comes in
handy. The little bit of extra reach and especially speed of this
over my 77/1.8 could be handy. I'm sure the optics would be better
than the Korean 85/1.4. Though I love my 77/1.8 so much that it's hard
to imagine my using anything else in it's range when I didn't
absolutely need the little extra bit of speed.
70-200/2.8 http://www.dpreview.com/news/1002/10022016sigma70mm200mm.asp
I doubt it would be nearly as nice as the Pentax 80-200/2.8, but it'd
probably be a lot more affordable.
17-50 / 2.8 http://www.dpreview.com/news/1002/10022014sigma17mm50mm.asp
Same as above but with the 16-50.
8-16mm F4.5-5.6 rectilinear
http://www.dpreview.com/news/1002/10022011sigma8mm16mm.asp
If you're going to go wide, this could be very interesting.
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