Heh, I regularly bitch on Nikon boards and lists about Nikon not making a decent selection of DX primes like Pentax's DA line.
-Adam Jack Davis wrote: > Amita, > Without getting at all specific, something I rarely do, a couple months > back I was reading dpreview Canon chat. Big hairy Canon whine for not > carrying a lens line equivalent to Pentax. All manner of examples were > offered, including the LTD primes. > They were critical of both the choices and relative quality of > available Canon lenses. > I understand your frustration at not finding certain third party lenses > for Pentax, but Canon users have their own grips. > > Jack > > --- Amita Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I have recently become frustrated by the fact that a couple of >>third-party lenses I like are not available in Pentax mount. >>Yesterday, I emailed Tamron to ask them if their 17-50 f/2.8 would >>someday be available for Pentax, and they said no. When I wrote back >>to ask if they would consider releasing one if they got enough >>letters, they wrote back and said that the Pentax market would have >>to >>pick up "tremendously" in order for them to release the lens in that >>mount. >> >>I'm confused by two things here. >> >>1) the lens I want is the cropped version of their 28-75 f/2.8, a >>superb lens which is available for Pentax, and I told them that >> >>2) They released this lens for MINOLTA, which has, what, three users? >> >>For some reason, this episode is really sticking in my craw. I >>realize >>that I should have a better reason to want to switch systems (need a >>more capable body, etc.) but it's very tempting right now for me to >>start thinking about building a Canon system when Nate has a spare >>20D >>that I can use. >> >>And then there is the fact of Pentax' slow R&D, but that hasn't >>bothered me too much yet since I've been pretty happy with the >>*istD. >> >>I probably wouldn't abandon Pentax completely, at least not at first, >>but I'd probably start slowly with a couple of C*non-mount lenses I >>like. >> >>Has anyone else has made the jump this way? And am I overreacting? >>This is the first time I've given serious thought to switching. >> >>Thanks, >>Amita >> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
