Originally posted by house That was part of my point.
There is a significant difference in old ff lineup. It makes no sense playing this down. They sell/sold an awful lot more gear, had more products and crucially came out with ff glass during the whole period of the last 20 years.
The switch to milc puts all that glass in a different market. That space is very sparsely populated in pentax land.
This might be good for Pentax but could squeeze pentaxians.
I guess I see the FA limiteds, DFA 100 macro, FA 50, DFA 35 HD, and DFA 28-105 as all being reasonably priced and decent lenses in the current catalog. The FA lenses from past years can fill in gaps as well and are really nice lenses. You can get the FA * 80-200 for 700 dollars, which is very reasonable for a high quality lens. I bought an FA 135 f2.8 for 300-ish dollars last year and it is a very nice lens. Fast auto focus, sharp wide open. Acting as though lenses from the 90s aren't worth buying misses the point of keeping the mount the same.