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New K100Y + 3 Lenses

Started May 15, 2020 | Discussions thread
DougOB
DougOB Veteran Member • Posts: 3,176
Re: New Lenses!!!

Photodog2 wrote:

A lot more excited about the new lenses! Of course, there was not much info about the new body so that's part of it, but also because I'm already pretty happy with my Pentax bodies whereas you can never have too many lenses.

The 85/1.4 is the one I am most looking forward to getting asap. The sample images produced by the lens shown in the Pentax site are just so smooth and creamy, such high quality without looking digital. It may well be the best lens ever made by Pentax despite all the legendary ones in its history.

I'm glad it and the 21mm are both weather sealed since that is a big lack for prime lenses. It may take me a couple of years before I get the 21mm since I have no plans of getting a FF Pentax and I already have the DA 21mm but I'll find it irresistible at some point.

The new 16-50 PLM will be in my bag sooner since the only weather resistant zoom I have right now is the 18-135. Though I vastly prefer primes for walk arounds, the16-50 will make a great travel lens. That plus the 55-300 PLM and I can go anywhere in the world with a couple of lenses. I just hope the pricing of the 16-50 will be as reasonable as the 55-300.

Uhmm... one is DA the new one is DA*.  I would expect priced accordingly.

Doug

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