On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:34:17PM -0400, Mark Roberts scripsit: > Adam Maas wrote: > >Last I checked, the FA was discontinued in most markets, and > >overpriced in the rest ($775 CDN for the FA 35/2? You've got to be > >shitting me). > > Mike Johnston just paid $780 US for a *used* Minolta 35/2 :-0
I suspect there just isn't the market to support sufficient volume in, oh, call it "fine primes" so we can avoid arguing about what is and isn't fast. Pretty much everything from Pentax in the last couple-three years has looked like "as fast as we can get it and hit the price point", and for Pentax that's slower than for Canon and Nikon because there are just fewer Pentax shooters. (Note that increasing that number seems to be priority 0, post-Hoya -- more intro cameras, colours, focus on non-traditional DSLR markets, etc.) I mean, I'd about kill for a DA 35 Ltd. that was f1.4, but I'd actually have to pay something north of 1500 bucks for one, and while I might, in general that would really hurt sales. So my suspicion is that Pentax looked at doing a DA* 30 or 35 or whatever at f1.4, and concluded they couldn't sell enough of them to make it worthwhile to make it. But if they can get a lot of people using the DA L 35 on a K-r, they can maybe change that. -- Graydon -- 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.
