Ah shit. So Hoya fired the guy who created my fave lens, the DA* 55/1.4. Unbelievable. What a bunch of maroons.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unrelated to the 1.4x, but I've been reviewing the recent posts of > Asahi Man on dpreview. He recently said this: > "Yes, Ricoh is the best for Pentax since a very long time.Hoya...Hoya > fired Jun Hirakawa...Anybody knows who Jun Hirakawa is?" > > Well I didn't, but I do now: http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hirakawa_Jun > > Word is that he now works for Tamron and word is he was responsible > "for the SP 24-70mm F2.8 Di VC USD lens which was announced last year. > Sadly, there is no Pentax version for that." > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
