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Pentax lens roadmap 2020
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(05-15-2020, 09:47 AM)Kunzite Wrote:
(05-15-2020, 09:36 AM)Brightcolours Wrote: We can deduce that Ricoh are morons for calling fixed focal length lenses "single focus". Not grasping the difference between focal length and "focus" is a bit weird for a camera company. I do have a few single focus lenses, lenses that have a fixed focus plane.
You could, but then you would be the moron - as "Ricoh" is an optical lens maker (among many other things) and you're sitting in your armchair, posting on the Internet. Guess who knows better about optical design.
I'm glad you didn't.

By the way, they're calling the same as e.g. Nikon (and, I assume, the others): 単焦
The only issue is the literal translation.

You are funny Big Grin

"Ricoh" is not 1 person, but a company with many people working there ( I assume). Most of those people may also own armchairs, and many also post on internet, no doubt. A Chinese upstart like Laowa can be forgiven for wrong translations into English, but a decades old Japanese "optical lens maker" as you put it, should know better.
That google translates 単焦 as "single focus" and not "single focal", where it does translate "焦" as "focal" and not "focus", shows you where a moron at Ricoh (or a department full of morons at Ricoh) goofed up. 

Nikon calls them "prime lenses", not "single focus".
Canon calls them "prime" and "fixed focal length" lenses, not "single focus".
Sony calls them "prime" lenses, not "single focus".
Minolta calls them "fixed focal length" and "prime" lenses, not "single focus".
  


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Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by Klaus - 03-27-2020, 11:00 PM
RE: Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by Rover - 05-15-2020, 05:41 AM
RE: Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by davidmanze - 05-15-2020, 07:02 AM
RE: Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by Brightcolours - 05-15-2020, 06:45 AM
RE: Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by toni-a - 05-15-2020, 08:17 AM
RE: Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by Kunzite - 05-15-2020, 09:03 AM
RE: Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by Brightcolours - 05-15-2020, 09:36 AM
RE: Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by Kunzite - 05-15-2020, 09:47 AM
RE: Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by Brightcolours - 05-15-2020, 11:38 AM
RE: Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by Kunzite - 05-15-2020, 01:06 PM
RE: Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by Brightcolours - 05-15-2020, 01:34 PM
RE: Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by Rover - 05-15-2020, 02:19 PM
RE: Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by Kunzite - 05-15-2020, 02:40 PM
RE: Pentax lens roadmap 2020 - by Klaus - 05-16-2020, 01:10 AM

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