The description on the Pentax home page is about as close to a shrug as corporate-speak ever gets.
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm profoundly ambivalent on the new 35. The competition has amanged > to produce equivalents which are both faster (f1.8) and cheaper ($200 > MSRP) and while the new 35 is smaller than the Nikon or Sony versions, > it's not significantly so. I was expecting a much smaller lens when I > heard the f2.4 spec. > > Time for me to start hunting an FA35 I think. > > -Adam > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:19 AM, John Celio <[email protected]> wrote: >> May I be the first to say: I will be avoiding the just-announced DA L 35mm >> f2.4. Plastic construction aside, the SR feature of Pentax SLRs does not >> mean a (relatively) slow normal lens is a good thing to offer if you want to >> attract new users. :P >> >> http://www.pentaximaging.com/camera-lenses/smc_PENTAX_DA_L_35mm_F2.4_AL/ >> >> John >> -- >> http://www.jacelio.com >> http://www.cafepress.com/jacelio >> >> -- >> 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
