Originally posted by 7samurai I think that's more true now since the Pentax price increases and Nikon offering some less expensive glass.
You have captured precisely why I bet my money on Pentax over 40 years ago and haven'et waivered. They have good glass at good prices. It's no wonder that the 3rd party makers stay away from Pentax for the most part. the 3rd party stuff only sells if it can
substanitally undersell the name brand. It's a lot easier to undersell an over priced canikon than it is a more value priced Pentax.
I've owned a few 3rd party lenses over time and have learned my lesson with them.... cheaper to buy, ok to use, trash barrel when
done with them. Conversely, the name brand ---as pentax has managed the screw mount and K mount family has never required
dumping the lenes in a barrel, and have maintained enough compatibility that I've always been able to get reasonable prices
for the older generation, as i've updated my lens family from screw mount to K mount, to K-A mount, to FA mount to (in some instances DA mounts.)
Pentax is even considerate enough to include corrections for Chromatic abberations for the often long out of production FA series lenses even though the possiblity of correcting for that was unknown and not done during the era when those lenses were manufactured.
to me, that is class act.