On Nov 2, 2010, at 2:51 AM, 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.
Why would Pentax even consider developing more FA limiteds? They're not optimized for the APS-C image circle. They were designed for cameras that are no longer being produced. I expect Pentax will develop more fast primes, like the DA 77 limited for example, but they'll be for APS-C image circle. And Pentax has produced fast zooms that are for all practical purposes the equal of the older primes. Yes, a 1.9 aperture offers advantages over a 2.8, but they're minimal. Paul > > 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. > > 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. -- 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.
