I´m not Mike but I have Practical Photography November 2000 issue in front of me. In the test 90-105 mm macro lenses get the following points: Canon AF 100/2.8 - 9/10 Minolta AF 100/2.8 - 9/10 Nikon AF 105/2.8D - 7/10 Pentax AF 100/2.8 - 6/10 Sigma AF 105/28 EX - 9/10 Tamron AF 90/2.8 SP - 9/10 Tokina AF 100/2.8 AT-X 6/10 Pentax 100 mm performs well but needs stopping down and is expensive. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
-----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Päivä: 04. helmikuuta 2003 16:59 Aihe: Re: PDMLDSLR >Hi Mike, > >Do you have any access to tests of macro lenses? >I own Tamron manual SP 90/2.8 macro, I bought it when found that it performed much >better Pentax 100m in one Popular or Practical Photography if I remember well and >also beat Nikkor 105mm >I wonder if you ever used the lens. Is it really better than Pentax lens? I also own >SMC K105/2.8 lense (very nice indeed) so here was another reason to choose 90mm to >have a both portrait and macro lens.Or maybe to sell it and buy FA100/2.8 macro.. >If you happen to have any official tests please drop me a line.I also wonder how good >FA200/4 ED macro lens is.Any comments/tests? >Sorry for not writing from PDML but would like to have direct contact.Please write to >this address. >Thanks in advance. >PS BTW Do you have any tests from K lenses era?Do you think Zeiss T lenses are >better/much better than Pentax primes?Now the price of manual Zeiss glass is not very >high. I even think to sell my Pentax gear and buy new Aria+some primes (used).But it >will not allow me to buy into digital with them, AF etc. So maybe it is better to >stick to Pentax. I own some K lenses (28/3.5 , 105/2.8 135/2.5 all SMC and A50/1.4 >and M35/2.8 and SUper A+PZ1+Metz 40MZ3i) >How do you think?I mainly take slides > >Please answer >Alek > > >Użytkownik Mike Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisał: >>>P.S. I propose a new division of terms for this discussion: >> >>> P-DSLR: Any old Pentax Digital Single Lens Reflex, even, or especially, a >>>crappy cheapo cynical rushed-to-market cobbled-up little 3-mp mass-market >>>sensor jobbie that\'ll have us all moaning and groaning and venting; >> >>> PDMLDSLR: Pentax Discuss Mailing List Digital Single Lens Reflex, for a >>>thoughtfully designed, well-executed camera that many of us would at least be >>>interested in and wouldn\'t mind owning, and that would get some of us to stay >>>with Pentax as we switch over to digital. >> >>>(continued in the next post...) >> >> >>So just for fun, here\'s my conservative prediction: that the PDMLDSLR will >>be a small, innovatively styled, nicely made SLR-style camera with a 6-mp >>APS-sized CCD sensor. It will take FA lenses (and perhaps older A lenses >>with limitations) with a 1.5X magnification factor, and there will be one >>new lens introduced or promised for it that will cover only the digital >>sensor and not 35mm film. This will be a wide-angle zoom. It will sell in >>the $1,500-$1,600 range, and availability will be late August or September. >> >>It will be seen only under glass at PMA with the sketchiest of descriptions, >>Cesar will receive an official picture of it and post it for the rest of us, >>and long months will drag by before we really know everything for certain. >> >>That\'s what I\'d bet on. If I were forced to bet on something. >> >>Here\'s what could also happen: >> >>Pentax could throw us all for a loop. This could be: >> >>Negative; meaning something badly spec\'d, or an adaptation of another >>company\'s camera, or basically point-and-shoot capabilities but with >>interchangeable lenses, or something designed to be marketed around the >>premise of some special feature that turns out to be ridiculous; or: >> >>Positive, meaning something really innovative that will appeal to people and >>catch on, but something nobody expects. >> >>And now REALLY just for fun, here\'s what I\'d PERSONALLY be happy to see (I\'m >>just pulling this out of my butt--with apologies for my french to the PDMLWL >>[PDML Wimmins League]--this has absolutely no bearing on reality): the >>aforementioned small, innovatively styled, nicely made SLR-style camera, but >>with a pellicle mirror that allows real-time preview on the LCD screen, and >>a 3-mp (right, 3-mp) Fuji SuperCCD SR (super dynamic range) sensor--and a >>6-mp version promised for the not-too-distant future. And, not only a >>wide-angle zoom that covers only the digital sensor, but two wide-angle fast >>primes as well. >> >>Now, just as Murphy\'s law is a law, and just as it is only sure to rain if >>you don\'t bring your umbrella, nothing I would specify for my own odd little >>desires would ever actually come to pass; so, the only CERTAIN information >>in this post is that the features outlined in the previous paragraph will >>NOT be found in the upcoming P-DSLR. >> >>And, friends, you can take that to the bank . <g> >> >>--Mike >> >>P.S. Sorry, Bob S., I\'ve let you down. >> >
