On 23.08.2006, at 03:43 , Amita Guha wrote: > I have recently become frustrated by the fact that a couple of > third-party lenses I like are not available in Pentax mount. > Yesterday, I emailed Tamron to ask them if their 17-50 f/2.8 would > someday be available for Pentax, and they said no. When I wrote back > to ask if they would consider releasing one if they got enough > letters, they wrote back and said that the Pentax market would have to > pick up "tremendously" in order for them to release the lens in that > mount. > > I'm confused by two things here. > > 1) the lens I want is the cropped version of their 28-75 f/2.8, a > superb lens which is available for Pentax, and I told them that > > 2) They released this lens for MINOLTA, which has, what, three users? The reason for that situation is simple - one of the biggest shareholders of Tamron Inc. is... Sony. That's why some key Tamron product are available in Minolta mount, but not for Pentax. On the other side Tokina, which is now closely cooperating with Pentax now doesn't make their newest lenses in Minolta mount...
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