I'd secretly (my wife is listening) like to see a 400mm f/4 or 4.5 and a quality 1.4 T/C.
Jack ;-) ________________________________ From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Lens road map 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 > > -- > 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. -- 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.
