Re: *ist & portrait zooms

[Herb Chong]

on a film body, the 24-90 is an excellent walk around general purpose lens. 
it doesn't have the long reach of something like a 28-200, but it has very 
good image quality when stopped down a bit. on the *istD, i find it not 
quite sharp enough at the wide end. the DA 16-45 has more than compensated. 
my 24-90 is currently in retirement, but i don't intend to sell it.

Herb...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marco Alpert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: *ist & portrait zooms


I've been struggling with pretty much the same decision (a one-lens 
walking-around option when I don't want to carry all the primes). Since I 
don't currently have anything wider than the 35mm f2.0, the extra bit at 
the wide end of the 24-90 would actually expand my range in a meaningful 
way while still covering the portrait range. Last night I kind of threw it 
up to fate and bid on an auction for one that ended in the middle of the 
night and woke up this morning to find I'd won. So in a few weeks I guess 
I'll be able to begin discovering if I made the right decision.