Hi Bruce, on 12 Dec 02 you wrote in pentax.list:
>Certainly the price is great. I have the FA *24/2.0 and the FA >35/2.0. I think that they are very different lenses and I would keep >both. In fact, I sold my FA 20/2.8 and 28/2.8 in favor of keeping >those first two (needed money for 67 glass). Interesting. I wouldn't have thougt that there is such a difference... >I also have both the FA *85/1.4 and the FA 100/2.8 macro lens. Again, >I don't consider them to be at all the same kind of lens. The 85 is a >MUCH better portrait lens and the 100 macro is MUCH better general >purpose/macro lens. I'm more interested in a genereal purpose lens. The FA85/1.4 would be interesting as it is an AF lens and I'm actually owning the manual SMC-M 100/2.8. >As to whether you want to later unload the FA *85 in favor of the 77 >Limited, is a totally different question. So far, for me, I haven't >gone to the trouble of selling my FA* 85 and probably won't. And that's the deciding point: I'm actually in the trouble of selling some of my Pentax gear to finance an MZ-S with the 24-90 as travel zoom. I don't really need the lenses at the moment and would buy them only in order to sell them later. So I will exercise self-restraint :-) and leave this opportunity. The 1.4/85 can be found in a buy-now auction. I don't now the seller and it is a German auction. But the price should make it worth a try if anyone is interested... You can find the auction here: http://www.atrada.de/ Detail.asp?AngebotNr=7939205&atradaid=323AEBFAACDE4B0E8709D0A6E49B1909 Regards, Heiko
