Hi,
Being on the used equipment market I had the chance to see a lot of older
Pentax (and non-Pentax) lenses: Takumars, M's and A's. Most of them are of
course primes, although some zooms appeared too. I bought two in the last
two months: SMC M 50mm/f2 and SMC A 28mm/f2,8. Gee, what a different "touch"
they have, comparing to the contemporary plastic stuff. They look solid,
professional, elegant, serious... perhaps "classic" is the right word...
Nowadays consumer grade lenses look like toys - very fragile, light (too
light?) etc... I don't especially like the construction of the FA lenses -
my 80-200/f4,7-5,6, although optically very good, seems so fragile, that I
have constant, subconscious fear of breaking it...
Those old lenses have such a "feeling", that I cought myself holding them
for just a pleasure of... holding:)) Seems like I've got some collector
tendencies...
Greetz
Artur
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"There are signs on the ring,
Which make me feel so down.
There's one to enslave all rings,
To find them all in time
And drive them into darkness.
Forever they'll be bound."
Blind Guardian "Lord of the Ring"
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