3 New DA* USM lenses

[John Forbes]

The only reason for not releasing the lenses now is surely capacity.

John

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:27:01 +0100, Toralf Lund <toralf at procaptura.com>  
wrote:

> John Francis wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 06:52:46PM -0700, Joseph Tainter wrote:
>>
>>> The sentence I found most interesting:
>>>
>>>      These products are designed for exclusive use with
>>>      PENTAX K- and *istD-series digital SLR cameras.
>>>
>>> So they *do* intend to keep old-style focussing ability (the
>>> so-called screwdriver drive) as well as SDM.
>>>
>>> -----
>>>
>>> I hope you are right, John. But the statement could refer only to the
>>> image circle. These are DA lenses.
>>>
>>
>> Well, that's possible.  But in that case I would have expected the
>> wording to be more like "...designed for use with the Pentax K DSLRS
>> and can also be used on the *istD-series bodies, with restrictions".
>>
> What I notice that they have cleverly avoided saying that the lenses
> will feature a direct-drive motor. They just state that the mount will
> have power contacts for one. Maybe they haven't even decided what the
> focusing setup will look like? Perhaps they are testing a new setup, but
> are keeping the options of using screwdriver focus *only*, in case they
> can't the new stuff to work out right by the time they need to release
> the lenses?
>
> - Toralf
>
>



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