The Canon IS effort amounted to 11 million dollars. USM is somehow cheaper, but still expensive enough for Pentax not to release anything of the kind in the near future. The utmost we can hope for is well build, full frame, aperture ring enabled lenses. Even this seems today like day dreaming. Servus, Alin
Alan wrote: AC> fate. If they failed to bring their 135 products up to date by releasing AC> USM/IS and some sensible high quality well built lenses (not necessary the AC> most expensive type), the future of Pentax will certainly look dark, very AC> dark.
