Yes, it's a bit dark/slow, but overall it's not a bad lens. http://www.matoe.org/pics/MIT_060702/020_17.jpg - this picture was taken with the exact camera and lens in question. Film was Royal Gold 400, and the lens was pretty close to wide open. There is a bit of color fringing in the scan, but I don't see it in the print that I have, so I suspect it may be a scanning artifact. If you browse the directory, you'll find a bunch of other horticultural pictures that I took the same day, with the same lens/camera.
-Mat On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:27:21 +0200, Margus M�nnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > lately I purchased P30t and as it come without lens, decided also to buy > some cheap MF zoom. Made some e**ying and today SMC Pentax-A 35-80 > 1:4-5.6 arriived. OK, understandible, it is pretty "dark" compared to my > loved AF primes like FA 50/1.4 or 28/2.8 and I do not expect any equal > quality from it. On the other hand - it's quite compact / light and SMC > Pentax lens after all, not some Sigma or Tokina, right? How does it > perform compared to other Pentax MF "normal" zooms? > > BR, Margus > Z-1p for slides > Z-20 for color negs > P30t for BW ? > >
