Hello, I'm new on this list. Since I've seen some people curious about Sigma plans for the future, I decided to share the following with you.
I was interested in buying a few Sigma lenses for my Samsung GX-1S, so I mailed the USA, UK and France Sigma representatives asking them if they plan to introduce HSM on Pentax lenses in the near future. The answers were the following: 1) USA: We are not working on that at this point in time. If any changes we will make an announcement on our website. 2) UK: At present we have no plans to produce our Pentax lenses with HSM. The majority of Pentax cameras cannot take the HSM system. Sigma may decide to produce Pentax HSM in the future. 3) FR: A ce jour, cela n'est pas prévu. (Translation: Sofar, this is not planned.) Comments are useless... :( OK, I also have a question: what's the advantage of ultrasonic motors? I'm interested in AF speed, since I've had a lot of trouble with my camera and it's kit lens (annoying AF hunting or even impossible AF in not-so-low :( light). About ultrasonic motors (technical article): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasonic_motor PS: is HTML formatting of emails allowed on this list? A.M. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
