Re: Pentax's Lens Strategy

2004-11-21 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Joseph Tainter Subject: Pentax's Lens Strategy We have been too complimentary here lately. It is time to return to lambasting Pentax. I'm working on it, Joe. William Robb

Re: Pentax's Lens Strategy

2004-11-21 Thread Sam Jost
Just a thought: Did it occur to you that maybe these primes are way easier to calculate and produce than the zooms you are asking for and that maybe pentax hands these out so you won't go 'pentax has gone out of business, they did not bring a new lens to market for n weeks now'? Sam (also

Re: Pentax's Lens Strategy

2004-11-21 Thread Joseph Tainter
Did it occur to you that maybe these primes are way easier to calculate and produce than the zooms you are asking for Well, I am also asking for a DA 18-20 f1.8-2.0, good wide open. Joe

RE: Pentax's Lens Strategy

2004-11-21 Thread Alan Chan
I feel they have spent too much resource on too many low end zooms but none of them are good. For instance, there have been three 300mm tele zooms and none of them good. There were some 200mm tele zooms nobody remember either. Since almost nobody is buying the 80-200/2.8 zoom, why not made a