New Pentax-DA 70mm F2.4 Limited lens

MeanGreeny

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23 Mar 2006 - 1:10 AM

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I wish other companies e.g. Canon & Sigma produced a roadmap of lens development.

mostly_harmless

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24 Mar 2006 - 12:37 AM

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I wish Nikon would make an essentially 'pancake' telephoto too! I'm rather partial to pancakes (and those short lens form factors are nice too!).

Of course, you could probably never do this on a film lens at those focal lengths, and most APS-C specific lenses are zooms, which probably explains why no-one else has done this sort of thing before.

Gives me an idea though... my Nikkor 45mm P would be what, 68mm on my D70s? Mildly telephoto. And it would meter, thanks to the 'CPU'.

I second the comment on producing roadmaps btw... I sometimes wonder if other manufacturers (esp Nikon) know themselves which way they're going.