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New K100Y + 3 Lenses

Started May 15, 2020 | Discussions thread
James O'Neill Veteran Member • Posts: 6,117
Re: JUST TAKE MY MONEY.
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5r82 wrote:

The best thing about this announcement is that Pentax seems to be well alive. Don't know how else to interpret that when they are coming with completely new thing and that is 21mm for FF. Small, light, WR, DC and hopefully 2.8 this lens is lens of my dreams because it is good for landscape, astro, good for street and with some cropping even good for environmental portraits.

Yes

I've been plenty critical of Ricoh, and this has not fixed everything in one go, but I read the subtitles as he was describing the lens and said "YES! This is a Pentax kind of  a lens for people like me". If there is a real life in Pentax this will be followed by more lenses in the "3 Amigos for the 2020s" style. I don't think Ricoh are putting the resources in to do that quickly, but a year ago I didn't think there was much chance they would do it at all.

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Pentax K-5 IIs Pentax K-1 Pentax smc FA 50mm F1.4 Pentax smc DA 18-250mm F3.5-6.3 Pentax smc FA 43mm F1.9 Limited +3 more
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