2007 Lens Roadmap In English

[John Francis]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:44:04PM -0700, Douglas Newman wrote:
> Here is the 2007 lens roadmap in English:
> http://www.digital.pentax.co.jp/en/lens/roadmap.pdf 
> 
> Aside from the three DA* zooms, I don't see anything
> particularly exciting.
> 
> The 17-70mm strikes me as particularly redundant... Do
> we really need another standard zoom on top of the
> 18-55, 16-45 and 16-50mm lenses?

That rather depends on whether SDM will be restricted to
just the DA* lenses, or whether it will be available on
regular DA lenses as well.   In any case, it's sometimes
nice to have a little more reach on a general-purpose
zoom; I bought the FA equivalent, a 28-105, rather than
a 28-80.