If they released a full frame in that body I think I would be in love. One can only dream. The Contax that was released around that sensor was a miserable failure so they probably took the right course of action as bitter as it left some people.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:53 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Pentax doesn't want to repeat the MZ-D debacle. The MZ-D would have been > among the first affordable, hell it would have been the first FF DSLR > camera, in 2002. Quite a feat for Pentax to have for their first foray into > the DSLR market. It was only 6mp but at the time most DSLR's were 6mp. They > thought that they were steeling a march on Canon and Nikon. Unfortunately > two things intervened Kodak and Canon both announced much higher resolution > full frame DSLRs (the DCS 14n and EOS-1Ds), and the Philips sensor that > Pentax was designing the camera around was, very disappointing. > > Pentax was already showing the camera around and even had working samples > out for testing. Between those, depending on how you count them, two or > three unfortunate events, Pentax decided that they couldn't profitably > market the MZ-D. It was never released though an MZ-D body, (also known as > the MR-42), was pictured on an Asian camera site with K-1 silk screened on > it's top plate where Pentax DSLRs have their model displayed. > > > On 7/3/2013 7:35 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: >> >> 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. > > > > -- > There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard drive > failure, and those that will. > > > -- > 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.
