I asked specifically for a 24 or 28mm. I would get a lot more use off a 24 than a 400....
Their answer is the 560. If you think an f4 400mm would be much cheaper go price current canikon equivalents. Why not get a 300 f4 and use a teleconvertor? It has pretty adequate resolution for that. Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: >Zos, >I hope you made your points. Full frame sometime would be good. >Meanwhile, How about a fast (F4 or better) 400mm autofocus. >And a 1.4x or 2x autofocus extender. >I really love the DA60-250/4, but it doesn't reach far enough. >I'm really happy with the K-5IIs but want the next upgrade as well. >Regards, Bob S. > >On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Pentax put a notice out some time ago about jim malcolm wanting to >interview pentaxians. I wrote them a long letter and they called me >last week. We didn't talk too much about anything concrete. It was more >casual than I ever expected. Jim seems like a very nice guy and he >seemed very enthusiastic about taking over north america. I personally >feel that the ricoh aquisition will pay off in spades with time to us >pentaxians. He did confirm, but was otherwise tight lipped on full >frame. His comment "well we let the cat out of the bag..." >> >> He loved the mx-1 and wanted to brass his copy up lol. He also >confirmed that the Q indeed lacks a low pass AA filter. He felt that >it was marketed to the wrong crowd here, but in japan it is currently >doing very well. Also we talked about post processing a lot and he >talked about how capture one doesn't support the 645 due to it being >a phase one product. He also convinced me to give phase one a try. >I downloaded the trial, but spending another 300 on software is >probably not the best use of my money at the moment I must admit. I >did like what I saw though. >> >> He told me to stay in touch and I have his assistants email address >at pentax. All in all it was a nice chat and I was quite a bit star >struck and speechless unfortunately. I did hammer out my main points >in my letter (more primes...bring full frame...etc) which I'm pretty >sure he read. He seemed to like my work too. Who knows...maybe I >can get into the pentax gallery online one day..... :) >> >> I did repeatedly state that marketing in north america needs >vastly expanded upon. He said that their goal is to become the #3 >camera maker in the world. To that end I say, best of luck and its >going to be an interesting ride either way. Looking forward to the >future of pentax in this small corner! >> >> -- >> 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. https://www.facebook.com/zosxaviusphotography -- 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.
