On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, David Chang-Sang wrote: > I can see myself using the 77mm for portraiture and perhaps the 43mm as a > "walk around standard".
<snip> > You'll have to remember that I will not be using these on an autofocus > body - it'll be strictly manual focus on my old K1000 (which I'm more than > happy to continue using as such) :) - so now you can all call me crazy for > doing such a thing :-) I am very interested in your conclusions about using the 77 for portraits without the crop. I may have missed some, but all the portrait samples I saw in that thread about the 77 were on a -D(s). Which is why I have never bothered with it[1]. Kostas [1] That and the gearing issue Alan has mentioned.

