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miifox
Edited 8 days ago
A hypothetical way Pentax could capitalize better on this weird current market would weirdly be to switch to M-mount for their best manual-focus lenses:
- 43mm f1.9 Limited (already existed in LTM for a short while, so that's literally perfect; just start up the manifacturing again!). This could be an interesting complement to the 40mm f1.4 nokton and 40mm f2 summicron, and the few extra milimeters could actually be marketed as "closer to the 50mm framelines, but with a little extra!".
- 77mm f1.8 Limited. Market this one as a 75mm, rangefinder portrait shooters ain't a big market but they are out there, and it would help to round up the lens lineup especially since nowadays people aren't as interested in 90mm's (i love them but i'm also realistic)
- 31mm f1.8 Limited. Again a bit in-between, but it would complement the trifactor of LTD lenses nicely; this is a tricky one though as seperate 28mm and 35mm's might be wiser. Maybe if they make their own m-mount film body it would have the framelines for it.
- 50mm f1.4 classic. Because it's a classic, fast nifty fifty; and it glows like crazy so it'd make the leica shooters go nuts.
And a little bonus one because i like that lens so much:
- 50mm f2.8 macro: with valoi film-scanning kit included :-D
I intentionally named lenses that they already have in their lineup and that are famous for their more "artistic" rendering, because i feel like that's where their strength be; and because I'm also not expecting too much in terms of their R&D.
Combining this with a film body (a bigger Pentax 17, call that a Pentax 35!) would make it real snazzy; since the Ricohnians have proven to still be one of the last companies capable of making it work. Of course, i'm not against a M-mount k1-mirrorless either.
And yes indirectly Ricoh (their parent company) has made M-mount camera's before, and Pentax itself has made LTM lenses in the not so distant past. But i feel like as a company they are way too humble for such a bold trick
- 43mm f1.9 Limited (already existed in LTM for a short while, so that's literally perfect; just start up the manifacturing again!). This could be an interesting complement to the 40mm f1.4 nokton and 40mm f2 summicron, and the few extra milimeters could actually be marketed as "closer to the 50mm framelines, but with a little extra!".
- 77mm f1.8 Limited. Market this one as a 75mm, rangefinder portrait shooters ain't a big market but they are out there, and it would help to round up the lens lineup especially since nowadays people aren't as interested in 90mm's (i love them but i'm also realistic)
- 31mm f1.8 Limited. Again a bit in-between, but it would complement the trifactor of LTD lenses nicely; this is a tricky one though as seperate 28mm and 35mm's might be wiser. Maybe if they make their own m-mount film body it would have the framelines for it.
- 50mm f1.4 classic. Because it's a classic, fast nifty fifty; and it glows like crazy so it'd make the leica shooters go nuts.
And a little bonus one because i like that lens so much:
- 50mm f2.8 macro: with valoi film-scanning kit included :-D
I intentionally named lenses that they already have in their lineup and that are famous for their more "artistic" rendering, because i feel like that's where their strength be; and because I'm also not expecting too much in terms of their R&D.
Combining this with a film body (a bigger Pentax 17, call that a Pentax 35!) would make it real snazzy; since the Ricohnians have proven to still be one of the last companies capable of making it work. Of course, i'm not against a M-mount k1-mirrorless either.
And yes indirectly Ricoh (their parent company) has made M-mount camera's before, and Pentax itself has made LTM lenses in the not so distant past. But i feel like as a company they are way too humble for such a bold trick
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