P.J.,
I didn't follow when exactly Zeiss stopped the production.
As for the "Veblon good" (which I had to look up that term), - I suspect
that in case of K-mount lenses, it wasn't the case. And the fact that they
discountinued those confirms my hypothesis.
As Stan wrote in another thread "lenses that are manual-focus only are so
last century".
[BTW, - Mark!]
I suspect that the number of Pentax users who are willing
to buy non-AF high-end lenses and can afford them is very small.
It is a very small niche of the niche of the niche market.
Igor
P.J. Alling Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:41:52 -0700 wrote:
On 9/25/2015 6:42 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Everybody knows that there will be no more Pentax lenses from Zeiss..
.. and there couldn't be any fewer either...
... but the latter depends how you count the famous K 28/2: Pentax
lens from Zeiss, or Zeiss lens from Pnetax...
On a more serious note, - Mark, you might be right on the money, -
that's quite possible that Zeiss will stop developing (and maybe even
producing) lenses in K-mount. I wouldn't be surprised if those didn't
sell much.
I had thought they had ceased production of ZK lenses sometime in 2010,
and Lo consulting the lesser god Google, was given the word...
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/09/zeiss-to-discontinue-lenses-for-pentax.html
So this is pretty much old news. It was a bit saddening at the time,
but didn't unduly disturb me. Zeiss makes a Veblen good, in a lot of
ways. No one would deny that they make a very good product, no one
would pay that much for it from a different manufacture, well. except
maybe if it had Leica emblazoned on it somewhere.
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