Paul Stenquist wrote:
Of the four new lenses Pentax already offers two of them, a 24-70/2.8 and the
150-450 (which is faster than the Sigma 100-400). The 14mm and 135mm would be
nice additions, but perhaps Pentax is already planning to fill that gap. I
probably wouldn’t want the 14mm, because the Pentax 15-30 pretty much covers
that off. The 135/ 1.8 would be nice perhaps.
I'm always shooting at the crazy end of available light and the 14/1.8
is really appealing to me, even having the 15-30, because for
astrolandscape work that extra stop and a third makes a huge difference,
and depth of field isn't that critical when you are photographing with
wide angle lenses at infinity focus.
Similarly the 135/1.8 would be very handy for photographing musicians,
particularly if Ricoh were to put enough focus points in the body. The
K-1 is a huge improvement for photographing musicians rather than
microphones, but they've still got a ways to go.
I guess we have a week or so to go to see what announcements are coming
at CP+. There are a lot of lenses that I wish I could have, in much the
same way that I might as well debate whether to get a supercharged or a
normally aspirated lotus.
On Feb 21, 2017, at 2:55 PM, Zos Xavius<zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote:
That would be suicidal and here is why: plenty of pentax users are
leaving for canikon because they want the new sigma lenses. Pentax
would be utterly foolish to discourage 3rd party options on their
mount.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Paul Stenquist<pnstenqu...@mac.com> wrote:
Ricoh probably doesn’t want Sigma to make lenses for Pentax cameras. Pentax
volume is small enough as it is. Why would they want to lose some of the lens
biz to a competitor?
On Feb 21, 2017, at 2:13 PM, Darren Addy<pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
You know Sigma has the tooling/technology. I have three Sigma EX AF
lenses and they are all wonderful (50-500mm, 10-20mm, and 28mm f1.8).
This announcement does not include a Pentax mount:
http://www.newsshooter.com/2017/02/21/sigma-announces-four-new-lenses-including-the-full-frame-14mm-f1-8-dg-hsm-art/
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