This new lenses seems to signal that the old tradition of small, light, and especially cheap lenses from Pentax is over.
I think that today, both Sigma and Tamron are making plans to release all their lenses with Pentax mount. D FA 150-450mm is almost 500$ more expensive than Sigma 150-600mm S, and twice the price of the Tamron counter part. Still Pentax 150-450mm is the only one with AW. Almost the same goes for the 70-200mm. Heavier and much more expensive than Sigma and Tamron, but with AW. Lets just hope that the Pentax lenses optical quality, AF speed, and construction is also much better, so that the weather sealing not to be the only advantage.
Some people may think that this prices will drop very quickly and very much, like those of K-3 and K-S1. Personally I doubt that this will be the case.
PS. I've made a bad choice of words. When I said ''cheap'' I really want to say inexpensive. Thanks to ''monochrome'' for correction.
Last edited by JimmyDranox; 02-05-2015 at 10:35 AM.