On 7/15/2021 12:49 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
It looks like Ricoh is coming out with a new version of the 16-50:
http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/star_lens/special/sp_da16-50/interview/
My first thought is that they really ought to have made it a 15-50 or some
other adjustment to the range just so it isn’t confused for the original.
I also note that this bodes well for K-3 iii owners, but maybe not so well for
the K-1 crowd.
The K1 crowd just got a full refresh of the 31mm, 43mm and 77mm Limited
lenses. Last year was the D FA*85/1.4 and the DFA 70-210/4, the only
lenses introduced that year.. The year before that was the refresh of
the 35/2 along with a refreshed DA10-17, in 2017 they introduced the
DFA*50/1.4.
In 2016, two of the three lenses they introduced were full frame lenses
and in 2015 three of the five lenses they introduced were for full
frame. That year they also released a 645 lens.
The D FA 21mm LTD (another lens for the K1 crowd) will likely be
announced within the next couple of months and should be on the market
sometime in the fall.
I don't think the release of a lens to replace one that desperately
needed replacing in the APS-C format is any kind of portent of bad
things for full frame.
What was concerning was the lack of a new APS-C flagship. The K3 is a
2013 release, and it got mildly pimped up up in 2015. Six to eight years
was starting to look like the APS-C line was being relegated to red
haired stepchild status, with second tier bodies becoming all that those
users were going to be offered.
I expect that the Pentax 645 line isn't going forwards. I suspect they
will quietly abandon it.
bill
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