Pentax Fora seems to think that the new lens is made by Tamron, but
AFAIK Pentax never had a relationship with them, while a number of
Pentax and Tokina lenses were in recent history co developed, including
the 10-17mm fisyeye zoom and the 12-24mm. I've seen no official
announcement of a collaboration between Ricoh/Pentax and Tamaron, can't
say for sure there wasn't one, but we know for sure there was and maybe
is one between Pentax and Tokina.
It wouldn't be the first time that a rumor was started became common
knowledge on the internet and was traced back to some idle speculation.
On 2/19/2016 5:20 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
I thought it was this lens
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/search?N=11084645&InitialSearch=yes&sts=pi
Paul via phone
On Feb 19, 2016, at 5:02 PM, jtainter <[email protected]> wrote:
Paul, its a Tamron lens, and is supposed to be pretty good. Pentax puts their
own coating on it.
The forthcoming 15-30 and 70-200 are also Tamron lenses. They are also supposed
to be good.
But in some ways Pentax never learns. They are still putting the SDM label on
new lenses.
So what are Pentax's lens designers doing?
Joe
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