Ok, but how does that relate to North Americans? I hope we get them all too.
I like AF TC's although I've *just* bought one that is not......I like a FA 17mm f/2.8 (non-fisheye) but that would cost a bundle I'm sure. Ya, drop the power zooms, save batteries! Kill Tameron definitely. And stock the stuff in Canada!!!! Brad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 9:09 AM Subject: Re: Pentax future: advanced and classy or cheap and shoddy? [was: RE: Hypothetical Question] > >Pentax is currently offering about 60 lenses. I have no idea how many of > >those B+H list. > > Couldn't sleep and got nothing to do. I just counted from the Pentax Japan > web site. The results are as follow. > > - 57 lenses & 5 TCs in total > - 37 AF lenses (excluding 2 soft focus lenses) > - 25 supposed-to-be-good AF lenses ranged from 20mm to 600mm (fisheye > excluded) to choose from (including F17-28, FA20-35 & FA24-90, but excluding > all consumer zooms, based on my very own & subjective standard). > > Anything missing or should-be-made lenses based on my very subjective > opinion? > - FA 17mm prime or zoom (non-fisheye) > - FA* 70-210/4 ED [IF] (power-zoom-less) > - FA 100/2 [IF] (optimized for portrait) > - FA* 500/4 or 4.5 ED [IF] > - make all TCs AF > - replaced all power-zoom to power-zoom-less > - drop all Tamron cones and redesign all current consumers to better built > - ??? > > regards, > Alan Chan > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 3 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&D I=7474&SU= > http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_addphotos_3 mf > >
