Originally posted by Marc Sabatella Underpriced relative to the competition. Stats: the fact that everyone else also charges $300-$400 for their 50/1.4's.
Marc, It has already been said that the Nikon and Canon 50 1.4's that you are referencing are motor driven lenses... so the closest thing in Pentax you can compare them to is the DA 55 1.4 with sdm at $640... So again, even their 300 and 400 dollar variants are a lot cheaper than the Pentax version as entry level 50 1.4's with motor drive. There is not much more to say about this. Obviously we will never see eye to eye on the direction Hoya is taking with the Lense prices. But to make a great little entry level camera like the Kx, and have no inexpensive AF primes to sell to go with it is a wasted opportunity if you ask me.
Originally posted by Marc Sabatella Gus, I hope you know I have the utmost respect for you as a photographer and contributor to these forums. It's inevitable that folks will disagree on occasion; it needn't change anything about how they feel about each other.
I so agree with this Marc... There is nobody on this forum that gives lens advice/breakdowns any better than you do. When someone comes on here asking what lens to get next... you break it down perfectly. For a 'Negative Ned' like myself, I find myself agreeing with you at an almost uncomfortable level
... And your photos speak for themselves.
But I had read that 20% figure being bandied about at least 5 times that day between the two forums, and I just blasted away...
It is like a real estate agent telling you the housing prices really have not fallen that much, because the million dollar houses up on the hill are still selling for $800,000. "It's only 20%"
Meanwhile my little shack in town has lost 70% of its value.
I know if you got all kinds of money it does not matter what Hoya charges for a lens. And if you are one of our resident lens collectors, it does not matter that you have not shot a macro shot in 3 years, you are still gonna buy the WR DFA 100mm macro and tell us all how great it is, before you put it on the shelf.
But we will just have to agree to disagree about fewer choices, and higher prices being the way to get new customers to buy into the system.
gus
Last edited by Igilligan; 12-17-2009 at 12:32 PM.