Why No 70-200mm f2.8?

[Joe Davis]

I do a lot of sports shooting and subscribe to a lot of forums and it seems like 75% of people love the 70-200m f2.8 for shooting sports. Especially indoors and with no flash and outdoors with low light. Granted most of them are Canon users. But I know there are people out there that use Pentax and are happy with them. So why has no one made a 70-200mm f2.8 lens? Sigma did make one but they discontinued it.

Closest I can find is a new 200mm f2.8 Pentax just released, although I cannot find it on their website. I saw it in the new PC Photo mag that came yesterday. It is the 2008 Digital Buyers Guide.

Any input would be appreciated.

[TheObiJuan]

I suppose there was not enough demand for it by Pentax or even Sigma?
This is saddening because I see it as a necessary range!

[BLWNHR]

Pentax dropped the lens, as they did with most of their line-up. Sigma did produce the lens but due to the unexpected success (in the 3rd party) of the K10D they all sold. Sigma only do production runs, they do not produce every lens all the time and the word I got was it was going to be January before they had room in the production schedule for the 70-200 in Pentax mount.

The reason I would say it has been removed from the web site is because they are developing an SDM model now that technology is available on both the K10D and the K100D.