Been thinking more about this, and the long long telephoto doesn't
make a huge amount of sense to me on an APS-C camera. A 550mm lens?
That would be a 775mm (35mm equiv) on a crop camera. Anybody see a
huge demand for that? Now a 550mm or 600mm lens on a full frame, would
be much more likely to be in at least some demand.
The other thing is... Hoya stopped the publicizing of lens "road maps"
like this. But that doesn't mean that there wasn't one. And given the
short time that Ricoh has owned Pentax, it is likely to me that these
future lenses on the road map are lenses that were already in some
form of development at Hoya/Pentax.
While Hoya/Pentax didn't appear to be interested in FF cameras, it
seems crazy to me that they didn't have somebody at least doing R&D on
one. In fact, that would be good "window dressing" to showcase if you
were going to shop the company. ("look at the additional product lines
you can expand into"). I think the Marc Newson camera is another
example of Hoya/Pentax carry-over.
Add that to the comments in the earlier interview from the
Ricoh/Pentax exec. talking about the importance of a "full DSLR"
product line and I think the evidence is getting stronger for a FF
Pentax camera to be at least announced, very soon.
Darren Addy
Kearney, Nebraska
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