----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Brogden" Subject: The Great 18-35mm Lens Pass-Around
> Assuming that enough people are interested to make it worthwhile, I'll buy > one of the new Pentax FAJ 18-35mm f4-5.6 AL zoom lenses. This is the lens > designed for the *istD, but it also works perfectly--as a true 18-35mm > lens--on Pentax film bodies as well. NOTE: This lens has no aperture > ring, and so it will only stop down on Pentax cameras that set the > aperture from the body and not the lens. Just to clarify this slightly, the lens operates properly in program mode or shutter preferred automatic, so can be used with cameras as old as the Program Plus, or Super Program, albeit with some limitations. William Robb
