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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
06-01-2016, 03:13 AM
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But only one of those was from the 90's, the FA 35-80. That was a nicely sized unit though.
As zoom quality improved consumers voted with their wallets and the end result was more width. The rest of the FA wide angle zooms show Pentax was in tune with that shift at the time. A 24-80 (or better yet, a new constant aperture 24-90!) makes more commercial sense these days, especially with a camera orientated to field use. WR isn't much good if you need to swap lenses constantly to move between wide angle and normal. Given f4 zooms would be targeting users who value a balance between size, weight, IQ and cost a 2 lens setup covering wide to normal and then normal to tele makes sense. A third lens to cover wide angle focal lengths seems like extra cost and weight for the sake of it.
If the lens is tiny and has great IQ then Ricoh will have something to market, but without some stellar qualities 35-80mm is going to feel like it should have been left in the manual focus era (and in that case I'd much rather an A 35-105mm f3.5).
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