Re: Samsung lenses

2010-11-12 Thread John Sessoms
From: Brian Walters On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:03 -0600, Jeffery Smith jsmith...@bellsouth.net wrote: This has undoubtedly been asked before, but here goes. Are Samsung cameras/lenses corresponding to similar Pentax items not sold in the USA? I recall that Samsung started a line of dSLR cameras

Re: Samsung lenses

2010-11-12 Thread Brian Walters
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:16 -0500, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: I thought the Samsung GX10 GX20 were considered to be co-development between Pentax Samasung, rather than simply re-badged Pentaxes. You may be right although I thought Samsung's involvement with the GX20 was

Re: Samsung lenses

2010-11-12 Thread Adam Maas
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:16 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: From: Brian Walters On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:03 -0600, Jeffery Smith jsmith...@bellsouth.net wrote: This has undoubtedly been asked before, but here goes. Are Samsung cameras/lenses corresponding to similar Pentax

Samsung lenses

2010-11-11 Thread Jeffery Smith
This has undoubtedly been asked before, but here goes. Are Samsung cameras/lenses corresponding to similar Pentax items not sold in the USA? I recall that Samsung started a line of dSLR cameras and lenses (badged as Schneider) a year or two ago, but have never heard of or seen them since.

Re: Samsung lenses

2010-11-11 Thread Brian Walters
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:03 -0600, Jeffery Smith jsmith...@bellsouth.net wrote: This has undoubtedly been asked before, but here goes. Are Samsung cameras/lenses corresponding to similar Pentax items not sold in the USA? I recall that Samsung started a line of dSLR cameras and lenses (badged as

Re: Samsung lenses

2010-11-11 Thread Miserere
On 11 November 2010 22:14, Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: I think Samsung's days of re-badging Pentaxes is over.  They stopped doing that with the GX20 (the equivalent of the K20D). They are more interested now in developing their NX models. I don't know if the re-badged models

Re: Samsung lenses

2010-11-11 Thread P. J. Alling
BH had them in limited amounts for a while. I was thinking it would be kind of cool to have a Schneider 35mm f2.0, but it proved to be even more expensive than the Pentax version... On 11/11/2010 10:14 PM, Brian Walters wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:03 -0600, Jeffery Smith