I agree John. OTOH, I was going to point out that there were no limited zooms. I've decided I want a DA limited 35-135, compact and light. I'm willing to settle for f4. I also want it to fit on my K7 and the new four thirds EVIL camera from Pentax. And I want the lens (and the EVIL camera) in a camouflage color scheme. But not the K7 because that would be silly. ;-)
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:30 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Boris Liberman >> >> On 1/13/2011 7:43 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >>> >>> > I was looking at the Pentax offerings on B&H while I was writing. The >>> > DA >>> > Limited lenses don't have an aperture ring. The FA Limited lenses do. >>> > >>> > Dream your own dreams, but don't tell that me mine are wrong. >> >> I haven't been using aperture ring for several years now. Used it >> recently on MX but that's a different story. Given that Pentax does not >> seem to be going to introduce 24x36 lenses specifically, to expect an >> aperture ring wouldn't make much sense. Unless you're very used to this >> motion around the lens barrel changing the aperture, it is not /really/ >> that important. > > It seems like all I have to do is express a desire for something and there's > automatically a big scrum piling on to tell me how wrong I am to have that > desire. It's not mandatory, so it's prohibited, and I'm not even allowed to > want it? > > It's like "I don't want one, so you can't have one!" > > Why not instead, "Oh yeah? Well, what I'd really like is to have ..." > > It's my *dream*. It doesn't have to make sense to you or to anyone else. > > What is *important* depends on who's defining important. What is important > to you may not be important to me ... and vice versa. > > I'll point out again, I don't expect to ever see the lens actually produced > by Pentax - although I think they'd probably sell a boat load if they did. > That doesn't keep me from thinking how useful it could be for me if I had > one. Nor should it. Nor should anyone tell me I'm wrong for thinking that. > > And I understand Pentax is never going to offer a "full frame" 24x36 DSLR. I > know. Ain't never gonna happen ... > > Unless, of course, they decide there's demand enough that it IS in their > interest to offer one. And I expect the nay-sayers to be the first to > pontificate on how inevitable it was that Pentax should do so and how > marvelous an offering it actually is. > > I don't know. Just seems like some people can't be happy unless they're > preventing anyone else from being happy; like there's not enough happiness > in the world to allow anyone but them to have any. > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3376 - Release Date: 01/12/11 > > > -- > 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.
