On Feb 3, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
> 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?
I want one for my K-5. It would be perfect for shooting small birds.
> Now a 550mm or 600mm lens on a full frame, would
> be much more likely to be in at least some demand.
But even if a full-frame camera is introduced, there won't be enough market
penetration to justify such a lens for a long time -- if ever.
>
> 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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