On 2012-02-03 12:16, Darren Addy wrote:
A 550mm lens? That would be a 775mm (35mm equiv) on a crop camera. Anybody see a huge demand for that?
Well, they derived enough perceived benefit from the FA* 600/4 and the FA* 400/2.8 to keep them in the catalog for years, even though it'd often require several months to actually get one after you made the order, because they "existed" as a bunch of unassembled parts in a dusty, mislabeled bin somewhere that "Nguyen" would get around to when he (a) found the damned thing, and (b) wasn't busy. And it still drew "enough" buyers at a 4-to-5 figure cost.
But that doesn't mean that there wasn't one.
If there isn't at least an internal "strategic road map" and "product road map", they're incompetent, and I don't think they are. They just, rightly, don't want to talk about it publicly because it's subject to change based on market forces, company forces, finances, world markets, etc.
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