I can imagine Pentax bringing out a fast 2.8 ultra wide when the ff comes out along with a 24-70mm 2.8 and 70-200mm 2.8

We'll I hope anyhow

Haha if only it zoomed lol

Last time I was in the Manchester store earlier this year they had brand specific sale advisors for each brand they stocked and the Pentax guys where very very informed about the brand. I was really impressed with this, it was like fresh air as my past experience in Jessops where truly dreadful and I wouldn't hesitate to go back to Jessops Manchester branch again.

Yes bought the siggy from an eBay seller in Japan for £225 and it arrived broken. Sent it to sigma who replaced inner and outer castings along with fixing the af. I really like it but I'm not sure whether I will be keeping it. I have that length covered with other lenses so not sure what to do.

In the old days before the internet photographers used to tear the pages out of magazine hence the term tearsheet.

The reason Jessops went downhill was because they actually never stocked anything as most manufacturers closed down their lines of credit with Jessops. Since being taken over by Peter Jones they have lots of stock in of many brands.

The problem for Pentax under Hoya was that most distributors weren't treat very well by Hoya and left the brand in droves. Restoring that goodwill by Ricoh is going to be very difficult, they have achieved the first hurdle in getting Jessops back on board the brand, hopefully others will follow. Here up north the number of camera shops falling by the wayside is truly shocking, we have non in Grimsby, our nearest is in Cleethorpes and even they now stock Pentax so things are definitely improving I feel under Ricoh.

I have finally gotten around to screen grab some tear sheets where my photos have been published in magazines & newspapers, I grab from online versions as its easier than me trying to track down magazines.
















See more tear sheets on my flickr here

Do you think products like lager and cider are at the main entrance of Tescos or that products by Heinz are at eye level on the shops whilst own brand is at bottom because shelf because the heinz products have a better profit margin.

Producers pay with larger discount rates to get products on key shelving and end aisle and main entrance to sell more product. The same will be true in Jessops, Currys, PC Word etc in fact any kind of national chainstore will sell premium shelving space via discounts.

So why should Jessops be any different, Pentax is not a big player in the DSLR market so the budget to compete for premium shelf space is obviously going to be less than canikon, hence the cupboard in the corner. To be fair last time I went into Jessops they actually had nearly the whole range of bodies, accessories and lenses for Pentax in stock, this was in Manchester Jessops. It wasn't that long ago that you hardly found any Pentax hardware on the shell, particularly in Northern parts of the UK.

Jessops job is to sell cameras and make a profit, it wasn't long ago when they went down the pan and thank goodness Dragon's Den Peter bailed them out and reinvested in the business and given what happened with the bankruptcy etc I can understand why they give premium shelving to canon and nikon.

I also don't understand why anyone buys a particular brand of camera to buy third party lenses, this provides the manufacturer with no income stream. If you want Pentax to bring out more exciting new products then buy their lenses and accessories, thats how you support your camera brand.

Nothing in 2.8 at 11-16 in pentax
35mm 1.8 Pentax 35mm 2.4
Tamron 17-50mm Pentax DA* 16-50mm
85mm 1.8 correct da 70mm 2.4 around the same price point or 77mm limited in Pentax for more cash

The Nikon 12-24mm is an amazing peice of glass and nothing in Pentax yet to match that range and speed, that zoom is also a full frame zoom lens.

It ay lock on quicker but the shutter speed will suffer with those aperture speeds. Surely the focussing speed with the 50-135 is also affected by the kx af which if I remember wasn't exactly stellar in that department.