On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:51 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > On 11/1/2010 8:55 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> The needle tracks up and down both of my arms spell out "fast >> primes", but my K-x will do better in low light with f/2.8 glass than >> my K100 did with f/1.8 glass, the K-5 better still. /Pentax will get >> more low light benefit for their development dollar from Moore's law >> than they ever can hope to with fast primes./ My guess is that >> they'll put their efforts into sharp zooms, possibly small, sharp >> zooms. > > Italics is by me. One of the things that may follow from this statement is > that Pentax may get more income by developing even slower lenses that > moderately fast FA limiteds. This seems to be in line with the fact that all > DA limited lenses are slower than F2.4. > > Again, to my personal taste and preference it means that Pentax is no longer > attractive. > > And I openly and freely admit that I wasn't smart enough to realize this > earlier.
You have a camera body you like and lenses you like which work with it. At some point, it may be worth your while to see if there are lenses that you can't live without, and what body would make the best use of them. If you're lucky, you won't need to sell your Pentax gear that will still work perfectly fine, to get them. > > Boris > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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.
