Fixed lens DSLR from Pentax?
One of our fellow readers suggested that Pentax could roll out fixed lens entry level DSLR in the nearest future. Something very compact with built-in DA 40mm Limited pancake.
Well, ultra-compact DSLR undoubtedly will face a warm welcome at the market, and one of the upcoming Pentax cameras will be pretty compact (not “ultra” though), but:
1. Even if it will be fixed prime lens digital SLR, it more likely will be built on 21mm lens rather than closer to short telephoto on the 1.5x sensor 40mm.
2. Back to the 80’s, Pentax released world’s first fully automatic zoom compact camera - Pentax IQ Zoom. Since that time, almost all Pentax point & shoots were equipped with zoom lenses. So, if Pentax will decide to make fixed lens SLR, it will be equipped with zoom lens too.
3. Not so long ago Pentax have showing interchangeable lens point & shoots prototypes. Also, DA and DFA lenses line-up is growing fast. So, it’s not likely that Pentax will make digital SLRs with fixed lenses, even if it will help to built something really small.
June 26th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Never mind any more off-beat body ideas, let’s just get some more affordable lenses into the marketplace.
Goodness knows how many customers Pentax have lost due to the delays and lack of affordable quality zooms, and to a lesser degree the primes, as the FA 35 and 50 plus the pancakes have been more available recently.
I’m not talking just about the DA* stuff, desireable though they may be, but more the DA’s (with or without SDM) with quickshift, i.e. the 17-70, 55-300, 35 f?? and 55 f1.4, these 4 lenses will appeal to many existing and new buyers, the first two especially. Sigma and Tamron are having a right good ol’ time with their 17-70 and 70-300 respectively.
Fingers out Pentax! They’ve been in the nether region for far too long!