The 10-17mm is supposed to be a Pentax design, the 12-24 is supposed to be a Tokina design, the others I haven't heard mixed information as to their origins.
Inner Focus wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: Jens Bladt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 9:55:33 PM >> Subject: SV: Tokina AT-X 165 PRO DX 16-50mm and AT-X 535 PRO DX lenses >> 50-135mmf2.8 >> >> I can't see to fin one for PKAF? >> regards >> Jens >> > > I'm not surprised. If you visit their site: > > www.tokinalens.com > > you'll notice that none of the newer lenses comes in Pentax mount. If I > understand it correctly, Tokina stopped producing lenses for Pentax mount > some time ago. This is probably because they're in a partnership with Pentax > and Hoya: Pentax slightly modifies Tokina lenses and then they sell them > under the Pentax name. I think (but I'm not sure) that this is what happened > with the 10-17mm fisheye, the 12-24 f/4, and probably the new 50-135 f/2.8 > (some specs are identical). More recently, they've rebranded the Tamron > mega-zoom... I'm a little bit disappointed. > If the information above is wrong, please correct me. > > > A. M. > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you > with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ > > > -- The difference between individual intelligence and group intelligence is the difference between Harvard University and the Harvard University football team. -- P. J. O'Roark -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

