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Clarification on the new DFA 24-70mm f/2.8

Started Sep 26, 2015 | Discussions thread
Zvonimir Tosic
Zvonimir Tosic Veteran Member • Posts: 3,234
Excellent. Ricoh should rebrand D610 too.
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Kharan wrote:

SPECULATION:

- The small differences in the types of glass and arranging of the elements could make a big or small difference between the Tamron and Pentax versions. ..

Indeed. With only small alterations, or changes to the Nikon D610, Ricoh can make a perfectly usable Pentax camera. For example, adding the SR module, and removing of the low-pass filter, will make the same effect the Tamron lens rebadge had: it creates a certain familiarity and a useful comfort zone.

Ricoh only removes certain elements and substitutes them with others, adds its own coatings instead of original coatings. And signs off with a familiar handwriting.

It is all in such little details, and Ricoh does it for the same reason: Jun Hirakawa, an ex Pentax employee, designed this Tamron lens, and perhaps a small team sacked from Pentax during the Hoya era, now works for Nikon, in the D610 team.

And that is exactly what Pentax users have been waiting for, haven't we: connect us with the 'roots' of our values, and build from there! A rebadged Tamron and a rebadged Nikon — is there  a better thing to connect us with the precious past!?

So yes, we shall be the happiest through-OEM-reconnected family in the world!

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