I guess I've gotten suspicious as I've gotten older.
About a year or so ago some Pentax officials, including Ned Bunnell and
some fellow in Japan, began "dissing" the old full-frame lenses. Ned
Bunnell said that they weren't good enough for digital, except maybe for
the FA 31. The official in Japan said something similar. The following
occurred to me:
--The synchronization between Ned Bunnell's statement on his blog site
and the statement in Japan seemed curious, if not suspicious. You don't
suppose these statements were planned, do you?
--It seemed even more curious that, six years after Pentax introduced
its first DSLR, the company suddenly began criticizing its own 35 mm
lenses. It didn't occur to them to voice this criticism during the
intervening six years. Furthermore, the criticism of the old lenses came
out of the blue. It wasn't in response to any questions.
My suspicion: Pentax is getting closer to announcing a DSLR with a 24 x
36 sensor, and wants to prepare us to have to buy new lenses for it. The
old ones aren't good enough.
It's curious also that they haven't "dissed" any of their 645 lenses.
Joe
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