It is an interesting idea, Larry (for a couple of reasons). a) Samyang would probably jump at the chance to be further "legitimized" by a camera brand. b) If I'm not mistaken, Samyang lenses are manual focus only. For Pentax to put their name on a "new" manual focus lens would be groundbreaking. I would imagine that the potential problems would be that Samyang would be nervous about opening their komono to Pentax. Similarly, Pentax might not be wild about opening the komono on their weather sealing to a low-cost competitor like Samyang. These problems are probably exacerbated by the fact that Samyang is Korean and Ricoh is Japanese.
I wonder how much tooling and bulking up the Limiteds would need to be manufactured in WR? Right now, I believe they can go into production with the same process as before, except for the new coatings. On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > Many of the lenses that I would love to see in Pentax mount, with autofocus > and weather sealing are made by Samyang/Rokinon. They seem to have the best > 24/1.4 on the market, their 85/1.4 is excellent, I love my 8/3.5. > > While we're at it, I'd love dfa weather sealed versions of the FA ltd lenses > too. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
