On 26/03/2013 8:44 AM, Chris Brogden wrote: > One could argue that Pentax can rely on legacy lens support to justify a FF > body. I suspect we'll see the body before a bunch of FF lenses. People > could use their existing lenses on a FF body, but Pentax isn't going to sell > a lot of new FF lenses until they have a body to put them on. Just my > guess, anyway. > When Pentax released the istD, they had exactly one lens designed for the format. It didn't stop them. Here we are, 10 years later and they STILL don't have a fast standard lens for the format.
bill When the *ist D was released (September 2003) there were no DA lenses. The first DA lens, the 16-45, appeared early in 2004. The *ist D was sold with no lens, or with the FAJ 18-35. So having few full-frame lenses would not deter Pentax from releasing a full-framer. And there are enough full-frame lenses to appeal to prime shooters. Joe -- 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.
