On 2005-03-17 14:34, Peter J. Alling wrote: > I don't know why you'd say that. The D-FA lenses are full frame 35mm > and if you actually visit the Pentax JP site you'd see > that there is still a full line of Pentax Primes listed. Maybe Pentax > in Europe isn't importing them but they are still available according > to the Pentax Japan web site
Did you actually check through this list? How many do you feel are still around? I guess it's rather unclear about the long teles, such as smc PENTAX 500mm F4.5 - 12 smc PENTAX M Reflex 2000mm F13.5 smc PENTAX-A1200mm F8 ED [IF] - smc PENTAX-A300mm F2.8 ED [IF] - smc PENTAX-A600mm F5.6 ED [IF] - But how about e.g. smc PENTAX-A 15mm F3.5 - smc PENTAX-A 20mm F2.8 smc PENTAX-A 50mm F1.2 - smc PENTAX-FA 35mm F2 AL smc PENTAX-FA 50mm F1.4 smc PENTAX-FA 50mm F1.7 smc PENTAX-FA Macro 50mm F2.8 smc PENTAX-FA Macro 100mm F2.8 smc PENTAX-FA Macro 100mm F3.5 smc PENTAX-FA 135mm F2.8 [IF] I doubt that this page is really up to date. It's from September 2004, and even in that time many of those products were no longer available, I suppose. The better Macros where replaced by DFAs, the cheap Cosina Macro is no longer listed. I was told by now that there was little market for the 50 mm standard lenses recently - I wonder why. It could be an excellent portrait lense for digital bodies!? Cheap and bright (although the 50/1.7 was never as cheap as the Nikon/Canon/Minolta plastic models).
