Originally posted by UlrichSchiegg I would have a more reasonable proposal. You pay Ricoh development costs and we enjoy the result. What about that?
IF money was not an issue (and there are some for whom money is not an issue), i wouldn't mind putting perhaps USD200,000, USD300,000 to Ricoh and tell them, "hey guys, how about reverse engineer the Nikon 500PF? Here, this is my contribution to that"
Or "how about updating the DA560? Give it a new motor, improve the AF speed, and turn that damn tripod foot to face the other way".
Of course, i do not know if that's enough to get them interested or maybe even usd300,000 isnt even enough to move them an inch.
Perhaps, where i am, i see many people with money to burn.
I see so many Sony users with the Sony 600/4, or Canon users with their 600/4, that i wonder, it cannot be that Sony or Canon sponsors so many of them.
I even see many teenagers who are toting the Sony 200-600 or the Nikon 200-500 f5.6 (obviously those were gotten under a FMS, in which 'FMS' = 'Father-Mother Sponsorship")
And i really mean "teenagers".
I saw kids around 15, 16 years of age, toting a D500 with 200-500, or a Sony A6400/A6500 with the 200-600.
Granted, the 200-500 and 200-600 are not "expensive" (relatively speaking, that is).
But, if parents are of the mindset of not batting an eyelid shelling out SGD3000, 4000, 5000 on a hobby of their teenage kids, that does show, there really are those adults who have and able to and don't hesitate about plonking down USD8000 to USD12000 on lenses for hobbies.
Anyway, on something that is more possible.
Seriously, am hoping Ricoh consider to rebadge the Tamron 150-600 G2.
IF they really arent going to update the 250-600, then rebadge the Tamron.