----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" Subject: Re: More on Pentax 645 55-110 and 33-55
> Heeding the old axiom "F 8 and be there" Pentax has just come out with a > new Limited lens for their 35mm line of SLR cameras. It's a 50mm/f8.0. > Since lenses are getting slower all the time, Pentax has decided to jump > the competition and offer the slowest standard lens for 35mm format. > > Nikon and Canon are left in the dust by this brilliant marketing coup, > although it's rumored that Minolta has an extremely small AF 55mm/f10.0 > in the works. > > On the drawing board: high tech, autofocus, pinhole cameras. And in the truth is stranger than fiction category, the Nikkor 45mm clone of the Pentax LTD series is, according to their news release, "A Tessar design that has been optimized for manual focus". I love marketing, especially bad marketing. William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
