Bill, if only one percent of the K and M lenses sold were advanced
lenses it's still a treasure trove of excellent glass that's available.
If the majority of those K mount lenses not classified as normals, are
28mm f2.8 35mm f2.8 135mm 3.5 and 200mm f4, which they are, each is a
bargain hunters delight. Only the 28mm lenses are in the least
problematic. The other three focal lengths would be more than worth
using. How many hundreds of thousands of those particular lenses do you
think Pentax made. That's not to mention gems made by third party
manufactures,
I'm not so up on Tokina or Tamron, K mounts but Vivitar
designed/rebadged a number of fixed focal length in K mount primes, from
20mm to 200mm that still out perform cheap kit zooms. The Series !
70-210 f3.5 are both still viable, just check out the resolution
numbers, they are posted a lot of places on the internet, and Vivitar
sold lots of those during the heyday of the K mount.
Sure the vast majority of the lenses sold were 50mm from f2.0 to f1.7
but assuming that only one percent of those are super wide or super
telephoto, probably 10 to 20 percent were moderate telephoto and
moderate wide. That's still a huge number of lenses that would hold
their own on a FF digital.
Pentax will still sell new lenses, I doubt that a lot of people in the
auto focus age would rely on only manual focus K and M mount lenses, but
if gems are available and they are, only a short sighted sales oriented
organization would deny their use to their loyal users, just to save a
few pennies and possibly sell a few more kit lenses...
OK, forget I wrote any of that.
On 9/20/2014 10:20 AM, Bill wrote:
On 19/09/2014 8:36 AM, JC OConnell wrote:
Just like the vast majority of todays lenses are the 18-55s? I dont
think so.
The vast majority of lenses being sold today are kit lenses.
I was selling cameras during that time period. I know what was being
bought.
What were you doing?
bill
On 9/18/2014 6:27 PM, Bill wrote:
On 17/09/2014 10:14 PM, JC OConnell wrote:
there are literally MILLIONS of K and M lenses out there because
Pentax
was a VERY hot selling brand
in the old SLR days of the late 70's early 80's, your estimate of a
few
hundred pre a collections is on the low side for sure. There are
probably more K and M lenses out there then all other later series
combined because pentax
didnt sell as well during the A years and later in the AF years.
Bear in mind, the vast majority of these lenses will be 28/2.8, 50/2
and 135/2.8.
bill
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