Hi everybody,
It seems I cannot stop buying new pieces of equipment as soon as
the opportunity arise...
I had the chance to buy a couple of demo lenses from the local
importer at a more than reasonable price.
One of the lenses is the FA 35/2 AL, a lens I was more than once
ready to buy new, but *luckily* never did. The other one
instead, an FA 24-90/3.5-4.5 IF AL, I didn't even consider a lot
before. Now that I own one, well... ...I'm asking myself why I
insisted carrying around the weight of the powerzoom 28-105
instead of buying one of the 24-90 before... Sure, the 28-105 is
built like a tank, while the 24-90 is quite poor under this
respect but those are not lenses I tend to use in dangerous
environments anyway. And even that half stop gained is nice.
The only thing that I find odd about the 24-90 is that its
resting position (completely retracted, that is) coincides with
the shorter focal lenght (while all the other FA lenses I know
rest in the middle of the zooming range - around 50mm for the
28-70 AL, around 55mm the 28-105 and around 28mm the 20-35). Oh
well, I can live with that.
Hope the results on film will be up to the expectations.
Just wanted to add a bit of Pentax content to the list...
:-)
Ciao,
Gianfranco
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