Joseph Tainter wrote: > Also, all three new Pentax DA* lenses will be produced under D-Xenon > "brand" too. Designed by Pentax, manufactured by Tokina, sponsored by > Samsung :) > > BR, Margus > > ----- > > So the S-K versions of these lenses will be made for Samsung by Tokina? > Is this the case for all S-K lenses? > > Margus, are you sure about this information? > > If true, it might make some sense--since Pentax is so strapped right now > for lens manufacturing capacity. > > This is important, because the Tokina version of the 12-24 does not test > as well as the Pentax version. Samsung versions of K-mount lenses might > now be as good as the Pentax versions. > > Joe >
I'm pretty sure that the Samsung lenses are made by Pentax, not Tokina. Tokina is doing the barrel design for Pentax on most of the DA zooms (the 12-24 is a Tokina design). -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
