On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:18:19PM -0400, Stan Halpin wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > > I just realized that it's been literally years (two or more) since I > > bought a pentax lens. The fact is, I have pretty much everything I > > need - the 50-135 and 60-250 are interesting, but not enough to make > > my break out my credit card (the FA*80-200/2.8 works fine for me). > > > > But one thing I *would* buy in a heartbeat would be a weather-sealed > > 12-24 (or wider) ultrawide. > > > > > > -- > > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > > www.robertstech.com > > > > The DA* zooms do a very fine job; 16-50 + 50-135 for occasions that call for > wide to moderately long, and the 16-50 + 60-250 for occasions that call for > more length. But still . . . > > I would like to see a wider zoom: DA* 9-18 or 10-20.
That would be nice. > I would like to see a longer zoom: DA* 250-500. I doubt if we'll see anything in that range. But there might conceivably be a market for a slightly shorter zoom (such as a 150-400 or thereabouts), or even just a repackaging of the FA* 250-600 optics in a sealed housing, with SDM focussing motors. But that would be expensive - I don't know if they'd ever sell enough of them to recover the manufacturing design and setup costs. It's probably cheaper to buy a four thirds camera and a 100-400 lens than whatever Pentax would charge for this. And if you're carrying around that much weight, an extra small camera body isn't significant. At present, though, there doesn't seem to be a 4/3 100-400 :-( Olympus have a 90-250/f2.8 (!!) for $5500 or so, and Sigma offer a 300-800/f5.6 for $8000. I'd bet that a DA* 250-500 or 250-600 would probably cost even more than that. > I would like to see a DA* 400 or 500. A DA* 400/f5.6 shouldn't be too hard to get to market at a vaguely affordable price point. > And I would like compatible 1.4, 1.7, and 2.0 teleconverters. Amen. -- 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.
