Yes. The 12-24 was tokina designed and Pentax also shared the 50-135 design with Tokina. I believe Pentax developed that particular lens. I believe there may be some other Tokina designed lenses with the Pentax name on them over the years. In fact Pentax has had a long history of licensing optical designs and/or rebadging lenses from third parties. The plastic fantastic slower FA 100 macro comes to mind as well as a few budget A series lenses and even some of the K-mount 80s Takumars. The new 18-250 or whatever superzoom is just a rebadged Tamron at 2x the price. There was a solid rumor that Tokina and Pentax have been working together on some new full frame lenses, but its hard to say what's really going on with full frame development right now. There was some initial disclosure and then they suddenly because very quiet on the subject again. First it was fall 2012.....then fall 2013 an announcement was to be made. Well, now I hear rumors that its being pushed back to spring 2014. Also the 645D upgrade that was supposed to be in the works is still a no show. Not really encouraging if you ask me. I guess time will tell. Pentax really needs to focus on some new APS-C lenses. The 16-45 and 12-24 are long overdue for replacement and are both pretty much out of production. The 55-300 could use a refresh with some WR as well.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:23 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > on 2013-07-03 15:39 John Sessoms wrote > >> Does Tokina still make any lenses in Pentax mount? > > > i think the point is that Pentax & Tokina have (had?) an agreement where > Tokina would produce the same lens design in other mounts, but not in K > mount, which is why Tokina doesn't seem to produce K-mount lenses > > > > > -- > 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.
