Darren Addy wrote:
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.
If I want it in manual focus, I'll take the Samyang discount. I'd like
those lenses in autofocus. Especially since for some braindead reason
astrotracer won't take the focal length off the manually entered one
that the SR can use.
I'd also love a fast, weather sealed 30ish f/1.4 lens.
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.
Pentax could simply buy the uncoated optics from Samyang, coat and
assemble them in a WR package.
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.
All new mechanical design, because they'd also go to SDM in the process.
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.
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