Re: Limiteds Question :) - THANKS GUYS AND GIRLS!!! :D

[David Oswald]

Well, most of the Limiteds came out before the DSLR's, and the 77mm LTD 
was, from what I can tell, intended to be used as a portrait lens, at 
the shorter end of that realm.  I get similar FOV using my FA 50 on the 
*ist-DS, and find that to be just fine for portraits unless I really 
want a tight shot.

Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
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".

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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.