On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:04:45AM -0700, Joseph Tainter wrote: > "And SDM TC's are coming, Pentax's first new > TC's since the SMC-F era brought us the F 1.7x." > > The TC(s) may be rebadged versions of the Kenko 300 TCs--which are > reported to be excellent. Pentax has said that for them to design TCs > from scratch in the foreseeable future (2-3 years) they would have to > remove a lens from the road map. > > Joe
I think they'll need to be a little more than that. While they may be the same optically, they will need some additional Pentax electronics in order to report the correct focal length to the camera - essential for in-body shake reduction. Just badge engineering won't be enough. I hope whatever they come up with will also work with screwdriver-AF. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
