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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-12-2019, 07:08 AM
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The 15-30 is quite different, it's a FF lens and 11mm is significantly wider than 15mm. On APS-C, the 15-30 is more like a "wide zoom" than a UWA. It really can't substitute for a UWA zoom. The DA 12-24 may be seen as a substitute, but it's really not the same class either.
The 11-18 appeared on the roadmap many years ago, so we can speculate this lens has been on the drawing board for a long time. It just happens that it's ready now. So, why not release it ? There's no high end APS-C UWA zoom in the current lineup. It just makes as much sense as any other lenses to develop. Like any new lenses, some people will find they have no use for it and would have prefered something else. But this doesn't mean Pentax should have worked on something else. Plenty of people will find it useful. And as many people would have no use for the lens you think Pentax should have worked on instead...
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