Could the real Olydak turn out to be a Pentax?!?
As you already know unless you’ve been hiding your genius away from the world under a rock or a bushel, it’s recently become official Pentax will be introducing a digital SLR next Spring that will take Pentax-mount lenses. Not only that, but, from what my little birdies are chirping in my ear, Pentax may also be readying several purpose-built wide-angle lenses to complement the new camera. For more than a year now I’ve been harboring high hopes that the Olympus-Kodak collaboration would produce a small, high-quality SLR with a smaller-than-35mm sensor size and purpose-built lenses to match. Maybe the new Pentax will turn out to be what I’ve been waiting for all along. The Great Zuiko 50mm f/2 Macro Lens Redux I received the following e-mail from a fellow named Tim Chakravorty in regards to my Sept. 22, 2002 column about 50mm lenses: Mike, After reading what you wrote about the Zuiko 50/2 macro I could no longer rest in peace! So I impulse-bought one of those gems from the Bay for about
Could the real Olydak turn out to be a Pentax?!?