Originally posted by ChristianRock But for landscape photography, astrophotography, portraits
Where is the fast 20mm Pentax lens that covers landscape and astro (beside digging into old stuff in ebay?
Where is the 85mm Pentax lens for portraits. The problem is that Pentax is weak for fast autofocus, burst rates, and long lenses, as a result is falls back into a category of people, landscape, achitecture and astro kind of camera system that doesn't require either fast burst rates and/or fast AF tracking, no surprise here. But when the Pentax offer starts to become a little weird is with landscape, astro and people. For lanscape, the D-FA28-105 is Ok but not especially wide (24-70 or 24-105 would be prefered), and there is the DFA 24-70 f2.8 , but to we need f2.8 for landscape? (answer is no one needs f2.8 for landscape images). For astro, the Pentax cameras are perfect with astro tracer, a nice unique features that other brands don't offer, but then where is the Pentax 20mm f1.8 for shooting night skies? (there isn't any, except third parties like Samyang, Irix are making the sales and Ricoh aren't making those sales). For people, Pentax K1 , great (AF should be good enough), with what lens? (D-FA24-70 does work but does not give the K1 justice, and 70mm is practically a little short). Ricoh were expedient with K1 lenses, they reused lens designs already done by Tamron, not driven by what a landscape, astro, people system needs, but driven by cost savings instead driven by customers. There is a difference between designing products to fit a purpose (what Canon generally do), and reusing product already designed to save R&D money (what Ricoh Imaging have done for the Pentax K1).