Has Snappertim ever posted a picture? He seems to be more of a lens repair type of guy.
But here's his track record...
Originally posted by Snappertim OK Lets look at what might occur at Photokina 2014, a few ideas from information gathered.
1 Pentax will launch a 12-28 f4 zoom lens to keep the APSC users happy. this lens is all ready made by Tokina so the rebranding to Pentax is no problem.
2 Pentax will launch a midrange in house designed and made zoom maybe a 16-60 f4 or f2.8 (24-90mm in 35mm) new SDM motor design.
3 the above two lens' will replace the current 12-24 16-50 and 50-135 as Tokina has ceased production and the current APSC user must be supported.
4 Pentax will launch a full frame camera, nothing radical here (when times are tough stick to what you know) the K1 will be a modified K3 chassis with a new condenser lens and mirror box (straight of the MZ-S), I think it will be 24mp, as 24mp is 24mp apsc or ff generated so no need for any hardware or software changes from the K3, grip will be unique to K1, but will not much changed from the current DBG-4/5 design.
5 Three full frame lens' will be announced at the same time 17-35mm f4, 24-70 f2.8 and 70-200 f4 the last is the mysterious entry on the lens road map, all three are actually made by Tokina (two of the lens' are all ready in production, and Tokina have announced the 24-70 f2.8 and shown a production copy at CP+) all three rebranded to Pentax.
well that's my crystal ball gazing done
From 08-14-14
So his track record is pretty clear. Listen to what he says at your own risk. His hit rate is maybe 10%. What's scary is is hit rate remains about 10% even for information he should know before he says something, because it information that's out there.
I suspect he's a vender, probably a lot of refurbished second hand stuff,with quite a few Tokina lenses to sell, trying to tell folks they are just as good as Pentax lenses. Just based on an cursory reading of his biases, requests for repair information, and lack of photos.
But that's just my opinion, no facts. Given his track record there's no reason to give him a second thought. Anything he says is about 10 times more likely to be wrong than right.
You can almost use him a source. "Snappertim says it's so, so it has very little chance of being true."