FA 31mm f1.8 is mighty close to 35mm, a fast lens, and nice quality. Expensive but very nice. I'm not interested in a DA 35mm replacement. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:34:17PM -0400, Mark Roberts scripsit: >> Adam Maas wrote: >> >Last I checked, the FA was discontinued in most markets, and >> >overpriced in the rest ($775 CDN for the FA 35/2? You've got to be >> >shitting me). >> >> Mike Johnston just paid $780 US for a *used* Minolta 35/2 :-0 > > I suspect there just isn't the market to support sufficient volume in, > oh, call it "fine primes" so we can avoid arguing about what is and > isn't fast. > > Pretty much everything from Pentax in the last couple-three years has > looked like "as fast as we can get it and hit the price point", and for > Pentax that's slower than for Canon and Nikon because there are just > fewer Pentax shooters. (Note that increasing that number seems to be > priority 0, post-Hoya -- more intro cameras, colours, focus on > non-traditional DSLR markets, etc.) I mean, I'd about kill for a DA 35 > Ltd. that was f1.4, but I'd actually have to pay something north of 1500 > bucks for one, and while I might, in general that would really hurt sales. > > So my suspicion is that Pentax looked at doing a DA* 30 or 35 or > whatever at f1.4, and concluded they couldn't sell enough of them to > make it worthwhile to make it. But if they can get a lot of people > using the DA L 35 on a K-r, they can maybe change that. > > -- Graydon > > -- > 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.
