Indeed. M42 takumars are being bought by the score too. That's been my real problem with k-mount: the lack of affordable used wide angle primes which are indeed in extremely short supply driving prices through the roof. Everyone from nex owners to m4/3 shooters are buying pentax glass because the secret is out about how quality and relatively affordable it is. Seems like everyone knows that the M series is pretty spectacular too. That used to be the least desirable series with K and A winning out.....
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:16 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > The lack of used lenses, especially wide angle primes could point to there > being a robust market for Pentax DSLRs. There was a time not too long ago, > when there were always a number of A and FA 20mm lenses moving through KEH, > now not so much. It's hard to find any 24mm and wider A or later lenses, > (or fast 35mm and 28mm A, F and FA), lenses on KEH now. They seem to be > snapped up as soon as they arrive. A lot of Pentax's more esoteric and well > thought of glass is in great demand by knowledgeable users of systems of > every stripe, from Canon DSLR's to pretty much every mirrorless system. > Pentax's decision in retaining the relatively long flange to film plane > distance from the original M42 lens mount makes adapting those lenses > relatively easy. The K mount was a wide opening for it's era, but both > Canon's and Minolta's allow an adapter that easily mounts a K mount lens at > the proper registration distance. Unlike most other DSLR users not only are > Pentax users competing with each other for the best glass ever designed for > our lens mount, we're competing with with everybody else. > > > > On 7/17/2013 7:14 PM, Mark C wrote: >> >> >> From: Rick Womer <[email protected]> >> >>>> Notice the trend of so many to say what they have is 'good enough'? >>>> Pentax loses. Notice the trend of so many to wait a year or more until >>>> there's massive price cuts on the newest model Pentax camera? Pentax >>>> loses. Notice the trend of so many to purchase used gear as opposed to >>>> new? Pentax loses. Then there's those that put there money elsewhere >>>> because they're not getting what they want from Pentax. Pentax loses. >>>> There's nothing wrong with any of those actions and all are >>>> justifiable. Still - Pentax loses. >>>> >> IMO - every other camera manufacturer has to deal with those exact same >> issues, and to be honest I don't think that they are limiting factors. I >> just checked on ebay - there are over twice as many used Nikon and Canon >> lenses there then Pentax. I didn't check bodies but I assume there are a lot >> more used DSLR's of those brands simply because there has been a more active >> upgrade path. The more people upgrade the more used bodies there are for the >> bargain hunters. And Pentax (sadly) does not have to deal with the "problem" >> of Sigma, Tamron, and TOkina making lenses that compete with them - though I >> wish Sigma would kick out a few of their macro lenses in the K Mount. >> >> A robust used market is the sign of a healthy brand, IMO. But a brand that >> tries to live off its used market is in trouble. Back in the 90's the >> buzzword with Pentax was that there was this huge vast reserve of used >> lenses and since there was great backwards compatibility with Pentax you >> could tap into those old lenses. It was a bargain hunter's brand. It was a >> great argument at the time given that Canon and Nikon had respectively >> scrapped or significantly modified their lens mount a few years earlier. >> And even though I supect that at this very moment some dim-witted blogger >> cum photo gear reviewer is repeating that line about Pentax, Pentax's legacy >> glass advantage has largely faded. Canon and Nikon have a couple decades of >> used gear compatible with their systems now, and their used market is better >> than Pentax's, and if you are a bargain hunter you would be better off >> trolling in their waters and not Pentax's. >> >> I don't know how the Pentax brand will be resurrected but I keep hoping >> that Ricoh has a plan... >> >> Mark >> > > > -- > 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.
