Well, I for one have long waited for the slow quality zoom. Considering that Pentax medium format No. 1 usage is landscapes, slow zoom lenses makes sense. Medium formats biggest disadvantages are size ad weight. Since a zoom lens can replace several primes making them small and light is great. Todays heavy zooms cannot really replace primes since there's no weight advantages to be had. I mean, a complete Limited lens set weights less than the FA* 28-70/2.8 and the FA645 80-160 weights more than a kilo. Also, making the lens slow should make great optical quality possible. It should also make the price affordable.
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