John, Have you looked at the old FA28-105/4-5.6, the old power zoom one introduced with the PZ-1? It's as good as the FA28-80/3.5-4.7 power zoom is bad. (I almost gave up shooting with the PZ-1 when I had that lens.) Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/13/2011 11:30 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >> >> 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? > > I apologize. I did not mean to attack your dreams. > >> It's like "I don't want one, so you can't have one!" > > No, most certainly it's not. It's like "I used to want one, paid money for > one and now I can see I can do without one. So may be you can learn from my > mistakes and benefit from that." > >> Why not instead, "Oh yeah? Well, what I'd really like is to have ..." > > I know what I'd like to have, but I also know that I am not going to be > getting it any time soon. > >> It's my *dream*. It doesn't have to make sense to you or to anyone else. > > If you say something to someone, it has to make sense to them, otherwise it > won't be a dialog. > >> What is *important* depends on who's defining important. What is >> important to you may not be important to me ... and vice versa. > > Sure. > >> 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. > > Yes. > >> And I understand Pentax is never going to offer a "full frame" 24x36 >> DSLR. I know. Ain't never gonna happen ... > > This is most unfortunate. I share the sentiment with you, even you think I > don't. > >> 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. > > The demand generated by the market depends on specific social slice targeted > by the company. It seems Pentax is not including you or me in that social > slice. > >> 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. > > Like I said in the beginning - I apologize as I did not intend to attack you > in any way. > > Friends? > > Boris > > -- > 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.
