> You know, Sometimes I think we underestimate how good some of > these older, third party lenses really are. Some of my favourite > lenses are third party lenses....
Same here. (Well spoken, Vic.) As much as I like all of my (too many) samples of Pentax glass, I also cherish some of the special and often unique third-party creations that have also been produced. This is not to say that there are no faults in my 3rd-party gems (nothing will ever beat SMC, for example, and the VS1 35-85/2.8, as much as I love it, is certainly not a "perfect" lens), but is to say that there are indeed some interesting non-Pentax lenses available for use on Pentax bodies which can also sometimes be quite strong performers in their own right (and sometimes - but certainly not always - be inexpensive to obtain). Fred
