Wow, what the hell happened? I think I'll stick with the smaller lenses, even if manual.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/25/2017 10:00 PM, Bill wrote: >> >> On 2/24/2017 7:37 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Bill wrote: >>>> >>>> It looks like Ricoh is serious. Now they are planning a D FA★ 85mm F1.4. >>>> Fun times. >>>> >>>> >>>> https://www.pentaxforums.com/articles/cpplus-2017/d-fa-85mm-f14-on-the-horizon.html >>>> >>>> >>> >>> That lens is taking serious aim at my pocketbook. >>> >>> Are they only announcing the 50 and 85 this weekend? >>> >> >> That's all I've seen so far. They are promising at the moment that for >> 2017 or later, they will introduce a wide angle single focus (this is >> single focal length (that's a prime lens, if Dodo is still reading)) :), >> a large aperture standard prime, a large aperture medium telephoto >> prime, a large aperture ultra wide angle prime and a fish-eye zoom. >> >> See the road-map here: >> >> >> http://www.photographyblog.com/news/pentax_lens_roadmaps_at_photokina_2016/ >> >> I'm excited about the 50. The standard lens is my favorite walk around, >> though this one is big enough that I might not like it so much, and I >> already have an A*85/1.4, which is excellent, so the 85 is only somewhat >> interesting to me. >> I saw a mock up of the new 50mm sitting beside the FA50/1.4, the new one >> looks to be about 3 times the size of the old one. > > > Here's the picture: > > https://pageshot.net/images/c6310f79-2aca-47f4-8bd8-6c3fbd0835d0.png > > > -- > 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. -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- 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.