Popular Photography raved about the Pentax 100mm macro & all other reports by users say it's amazing.
--- Raimo Korhonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -----Alkuper�inen viesti----- > L�hett�j�: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > P�iv�: 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 > > > > > >U�ytkownik Mike Johnston > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisa�: > >>>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. > >> > > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
