At 10:55 AM 8/17/2005, Andre Langevin wrote:
Pentax Canada rep told my retailer that the FA 50/1.4 is now discontinued
and that they won't supply back-orders. Pentax Canada gets their lenses
directly from Japan, so I guess the lens is no longer produced in Japan.
A new DA 50/1.4 on the way?
If it were to be a DA series, I would expect something more like a DA 33mm
f1.4, because of the crop factor.
I'm definitely going to be disappointed if there will no longer be an f1.4
lens of any sort. I'm getting tired of all the f4 and slower lenses which
seem to dominate. I would really like to have some faster options for
low-light shooting.
I'm also tired of all the zooms which don't hold their aperture throughout
the zoom range. Is it that difficult or expensive to make a
constant-aperture zoom? I seem to remember that once upon a time, that was
the typical way of building zoom lenses. If they could do it in "the good
old days", then why not now? These days, constant-aperture zooms are rare.
take care,
Glen
