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Do we really need/want updated DA★ lenses?

Started Oct 27, 2020 | Polls thread
Mark Ransom
Mark Ransom Veteran Member • Posts: 8,209
Re: Do we really need/want updated DA★ lenses?
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PocketPixels wrote:

Several reactions in the main K-3 Mark III news have mentioned a keen desire for new DA★ 16–50mm and/or DA★ 50–135mm lenses. Aside from some Sonic Drive Motor (SDM) reworking circa 2015, these lenses haven't changed since their introductions in late 2007. Ricoh/Pentax finally rounded out the "trinity" of professional, constant-aperture ƒ/2.8 lenses in 2019 with the DA★ 11–18mm, so chances are that one will hold up until 2032

What about the 16–50 and the 50–135? Are you keen for updates to the professional DA zoom lineup?

(And I guess we can lump in the ƒ/4 DA★ 60–250, which is also a 2007 release.)

I would never touch any of the DA* lenses that use the Sudden Death Motor.  To the best of my knowledge Pentax has never admitted a problem with them or updated the lens designs.  If they made changes in 2015 they did it extremely quietly.  At this point I'm not interested, even if they redid them from the ground up.

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