Maybe the only reason it's named a DA lens (and not D-FA) is the lack of aperture ring? It seems too good to be true... unfortunatelly, it won't match a ME Super :( Well, time to get a Super Program <grin>
Alex Sarbu On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:51:20 -0500, Lindamood, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, Rod Studdert's spider shot posted below is way terrific, despite his > lousy gear. Good on ya! Here's it's north american cousin through a 100mm F > and a bad scanner. > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?topic_id=1481&msg_id=001U4Q&photo_id=265367&photo_sel_index=0 > > Second, Margus Mannik's observation of no DA 40mm vignetting through the > PZ-1p viewfinder is also terrific. Several have posted that the DA lenses > throw only an APS-size image circle, but I can't see any reason why that's > the case. The DA 40mm objective element is exactly the same size as the > original pancake, and the entire lens formulation is probably similar. Why > would it throw a smaller circle? > > What I'm getting at is whether the lens will work on the other Pentax bodies > despite being advertised as exclusive to the *ist bodies. Maybe Pentax is > just trying to avoid sales competition with the 43 ltd.????????? Margus, can > you post one of your shots with that nice DA 40mm lens? > > http://www.eol.ee/~margus/arvutikasutaja/pancake.jpg > >
