On 2005-03-17 10:37, Peter J. Alling wrote: > Supposedly they are replacing most of the FA lenses with D-FA > equivalents. We'll see.
I doubt so: I'd expect other signals then. Since the only replacment or upgrade where the two DFA macros, while they created six new DA lenses in between, the last FA lense from 2002, and lots of A/F/FA lenses gone by now, I expect - the digital sensor size is settled by now: No more full size sensor to come. Larger sensors might go for medium format sized bodies - little work on analog at all. See, all of the major 50 mm lenses are gone by now! This was once called the 'standard' lense. Current primes left (prices from www.fotokoch.de) are FA 31/1.8: 1049 EUR FA 43/1.9: 544 EUR DFA 50/2.8: 519 EUR FA 77/1.8: 789 EUR FA 85/1.4: 929 EUR DFA 100/2.8: 559 EUR (and some tele > 200 mm, > 1000 EUR) Current exchange rate: 1 EUR = 1.33 USD, incl. 16 % tax. Thus just compare EUR:USD = 1:1 http://www.ecb.int/stats/exchange/eurofxref/shared/img/USDall.png