What a difference! Quite heavy and solid, with a beautiful focusing and zoom feel. Definitely more metal and/or glass.
Do the well regarded Pentax A zooms, like the 35-105 or the 70-210, have that heavy, smooth quality feel, or is their build quality more like the 35-70?
Joe
On Feb 26, 2004, at 3:16 PM, Fred wrote:
My sample of the A35-70, purchased used and showing obvious signs of use, has more slop in focusing than most of my primes, but is tighter than any of my other zooms. This is one lens I regard as more than adequate in build quality, despite the plastic bits.
Yes, I'd say that the build of my A 35-70/4 is entirely adequate. And, the lens does make up for its less-than-solid build with its optics - except for some barrel distortion at the wide end, I've found it to be a pretty darned good (even if unpretentious) little lens (with a surprisingly good "macro" function - much better than several other so-called "macro-zoom" lenses.
Fred
