On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a recent message someone implied that the old M zooms were not that > good. I must beg to differ. I have the 80-200 f/4 M zoom and it is > good, though I would not compare it to the 80-200 f/2.8 Pentax of > today. I believe the phrase I used was "don't necessarily expect great things," which I think is a reasonable warning. I'm not saying that the M zooms were of poor quality. I'm saying that any time you put a TC on a zoom lens you will lose some quality. This applies even for new AF lenses today, so I'm sure it applies at least as much to the M zooms, which were made in the early days of zoom lens design. I then said that it really depended on how picky you are. Some people will never notice the difference (myself probably included), while others will see it every time. If you're happy with the results, great. It doesn't mean that everyone will be, hence my warning. If you hadn't mentioned that you were unhappy with a previous TC/zoom experience, I might not have even thought to warn you that it's possible that the zoom could have shared some of the blame with the TC. > I used to have the 75-150 f/4 M zoom and that one was superlative. > Perhaps it was the more limited zoom range, I don't know, but I have > many, many, sharp, beautiful photos taken with that lens. Great! Any that you feel like submitting to the PUG? (Yeah, I know... I'll get around to it one of these months). :) chris - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
