1.) the hood of the F* is built-in, while the hood of the FA* is not built-in and too large for my taste
2.) The F* has a removable triopod mount, the FA* has not
3.) The F* has slightly better build quality nad is less easily scratched
4.) The F* offers slightly better manual focus feel (one of the very best on AF lenses9
The optics is the same, of course.. The only disadvantage of the F* is that you need not only to push/pull a ring on the lens to switch from AF to MF, but you also need to operate the switch of the camera.
Arnold
Butch Black schrieb:
What are the differences between F and FA lenses? I checked on Boz's site and when there were both an F and FA variant they seem to have the same optical formula. I'm particularly interested in the difference in the F*300/4.5 verses the FA*300/4.5. I know that the F* has a tripod mount that the FA* doesn't. What I found interesting is that the FA* has a smaller diameter body of the same length as the F* but is 55 grams lighter. Also, I take it that the F* is less common then the FA* on the used market.
BUTCH
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