From: Bojidar Dimitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:27:04 +0100
Hi Boz, welcome back. :-)
I hope that Arnold will tell you a story about his FA 135/2.8.
I've listened and when I take a look at my FA 135 f/2.8 - it seems to me that Arnold has had bad luck with his sample.
While these are not bad, ask your friend, the owner of the EOS 3 to >show you some Canon lenses: the EF 28/2.8 or AF 50/1.8, if he has >them. An even better example yould be the very ordinary EF 24-85/3.5->4.5 USM or EF 28-105/3.5-4.5. Then play with an L lens, if you can...
He has the, uhm what is it called now... the very long one. 35-350? IS?
Something like that. It's white and has a tripod mount. I'm not impressed. Big, bulky and ugly. But, I'm sure the optics are just fine. I dislike Canon's cameras more than the optics. Big, bulky, ugly and feels like plastic toys. The shutter sound of the EOS 3 makes me going nuts. It's very unpleasant. It doesn't sound like a camera. It sounds like something is loose inside an otherwise empty tank. Not healthy.
Maybe they just don't like Pentax's AF offerings, or there are NO auto-focus offerings to replace the K, M or A lenses?
It is, but it's fun to keep the old lenses.
I have M 28 f/2.8 *and* the FA 28 f/2.8 AL. The FA is much better, but the M has charm. It's softer and warmer. It has charm. I don't have the heart to get rid of it.
Either I do not fully understand the MZ-S or you do not fully >understand the EOS 3...
My MZ-5n exposes much better than the EOS 3, and the MZ-S is even better. My friend with the EOS 3 often complaints about underexposure problems. And when he attacahed an E-TTL flash, and wanted to use it with aperture priority, he complained that the shutter speeds he got was so low that he was forced to use a tripod. He tried to read the flash manual but he gave it to me, because it was so confusing. I read it, and found that his Speedlite flash was working properly. He was about to leave it to the repair shop because of the slow shutter speed.
But it functions as the manual states.
When the aperture rings disappear, there will be no MZ-5n any more.
They will not disappear, not on the better lenses.
The FAJ lenses is a good idea to get the cost down, but I'm sure that we will see many new Pentax lenses with aperture rings for many, many years.
Best wishes, Roland
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