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Thursday, February 17, 2011

3rd Party Square: Tokina m43 New Lens with Full Pentax Design & Patent!



Read:-

http://www.43rumors.com/an-interesting-note-to-the-tokina-rumor-hoya-pentax-involvement/

The Patent Post:
http://egami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2010-06-18 (English Here (machine-translated))

Oh, well.. Pentax now becomes the ODM (not just OEM, or Tokina to be the OEM, anyway) for the 3rd party lens maker Tokina?! The square of 3 is 9? i.e., 3^2=9! Right? :-o ;-p

The good thing is that Hoya will earn more money with the sales of more Tokina m43 lenses (if it can). And now Pana and Oly m43 users can enjoy new lenses with Pentax design underneath actually. But when an once 1st line lens and camera maker now becomes the 3rd party behind a 3rd-place 3rd-party lens maker, this is really something that hurts much the sentiments of the long-time fans and supporters of the brand, which is really rather sad.. :-(
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Ben · 736 weeks ago

Even more said when some of lenses with Pentax design, made by others like Tokina, are not available to Pentaxx owners.
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adonishong 13p · 735 weeks ago

The design of Tokina 16-50, 50-135, 12-24 also come from Pentax, which happened three years ago. At that time you also have some thread on that fact, like this: http://ricehigh.blogspot.com/2007/03/scary-tokina....

Why didn't u say "hurt much the sentiments of ..." at that time?
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RiceHigh 110p · 735 weeks ago

The Tokina and Pentax "co-development" had hurt the sentiments of Pentaxians on day one.

But now Hoya being act as the ODM of Tokina for making 3rd party m43 lenses is just even more sad.
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Adonishong · 735 weeks ago

In my opinion, Pentax just sales their fantastic design to Tokina, who does not have any optic related patent for years. Without SMC from Pentax, Tokina still sells these lens well. This fact just prove the optic design from Pentax is so good. This just make me happy but hurt.

If some body's sentiment is hurt by such fact, I could just only say this guy has a glass heart...

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