Originally posted by zapp New camera-system require new glass. Digital fullframe is new for Pentax. "make-do" time is over very soon.
It's your opinion, but it's not fact. The K-1 was designed to take advantage of legacy glass. Just because you choose not to use it doesn't necessarily mean the existing Pentax glass isn't adequate.
The question is adequate for what?
People have these lenses that pretty much exist only in their own imaginations. and trash Pentax for rnot meeting imaginary standards. "Modern glass" is not a meaningful standard. There has to be a technical aspect. And why is tha avoided n that type of post? Because the lenses other companies make that are held up as examples, don't meet that standard.
The number of times I have heard someone saying "Pentax doesn't have this or that but Canon does or Nikon does" and then looked up the lens FL in question only to discover the lens they refer to is not a modern lens or up to "modern" standards, I treat all such statements now as fluff. The fact that some person can imagine some lens that Pentax doesn't make, doesn't mean other companies are better or that asking Pentax to have such a lens is reasonable. Way too often I've looked at the test of mentioned canon nd Nikon offerings and looked at the expectations of the person wanting the lens in Pentax mount, and the aforementioned lens didn't meet my basic expectations in terms of being a quality lens.
I'd be happier with the forum as a whole if others did the same. See what's out there, before you criticize Pentax.
The one thing that becomes clear in these types of situations is, just because Sony, or Fuji or Canon, or Nikon have lenses for sale doesn't mean they are by definition leness. On Photozone many of them look pretty weak. That's why the 31, 43, 77, the FA 85 and many other screw drive lensesare still around. They still have something unique to offer.
The fact that some person here or there doesn't appreciate what they have to offer, in the over all scheme of things is pretty meaningless.