Originally posted by repaap ...
It is just the same when people are talking about those new DFA* lenses. Because pentax would not be able to produce something like that them selves. Well in that case there has been history of sharing patents, and there are rebadged tamron(who don’t have one done by them?).
That does not mean that this kind a stuff should be kept at here. Besides. That does not make any sense. As said before. That tech is allover now(SR). All of the sudden it is more important than stabilisation in lens. If Sony would not have gone there...they could have copied it from Pentax btw..
Well I didn't say that Pentax
couldn't make this AF tech themselves, and for all we know, they very well could have. We just don't know anything right now anyway. But to create AF tech that reaches the same or similar levels as the D500 would require significant investment. Potentially enough that it might price this camera out of market in order to recoup the R&D. It would be significantly less expensive to license a competitors tech that has already been proven to be a highly capable system.
True, SR tech is all over. But why reinvent the wheel when you can instead license the wheel and not spend as much of your R&D budget doing it? Besides, after you've gained the starting point, in this case it being a competent SR system, you can then take that system, add your own improvements and come out with a system that's potentially improved over and above the system that you received a license for.