Just someone who tracks the announcements a little more closely. The original Pentax lens roadmap did, indeed, show a 50-200 zoom. In fact it showed two of them; the 50-200/f4-5.6 we've now seen, and a later, more expensive (constant aperture) version. It was only some time later on that the constant-aperture lens transmogrified to a 50-135, rather than a 50-200.
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:49:08PM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: > There you go. Correct information from someone not suffering from old- > age short term memory loss:-). > Paul > On Aug 17, 2006, at 11:26 PM, John Francis wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:42:56PM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: > >> Pentax has some very nice new zooms. The DA 12-24/4 is excellent, as > >> is the DA 16-45/4. Some more are on the horizon. I believe one of > >> them is a 50-200/2.8. > >> Paul > > > > The next two lenses are supposedly an 18-50/f2.8 and a 50-135/f2.8 > > (both rumoured to have in-lens focussing motors of some kind). > > > > Beyond that I'm just beginning to hear talk of a 60-250 (probably > > f4, not f2.8). If that's correct then I'd also expect to see some > > wider zoom to complement it such as a 15-60. > > > > If the rumours of a new focussing system are true then I'd expect > > both of these lenses to incorporate it. That would make the overlap > > between the 16-45 and any new wide zoom (with 60mm at the long end) > > a little more understandable. > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
