Thanks Adam, I wasn't too sure. Dave
At 10:49 AM 28/11/2006, Adam Maas wrote: > From what I've heard, this is a Tokina development (it long preceded >the DA version to market) that was placed in a new barrel for Pentax. >It's the later lenses which are Pentax optical designs in Tokina barrels >when sold as Tokinas (The 10-17 Fisheye and the new 16-50 and 50-135) > >-Adam > > >David Savage wrote: > > The Tokina is a Pentax lens without the SMC :-) > > > > Apparently it was a jointly developed. I think I read the barrel was > > designed by Tokina & the optics by Pentax. But I'm not too sure. > > > > Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

