I can understand your sentiments of holding those older lens for the
very pleasure of the feeling they give. They do give a
different "feel" or "touch" and this goes true for about any
manufacturer: manual focus lenses display superios handling. My FA
lenses were consumer optics and very plastickry indeed. Nevertheless
certain AF lenses do offer better optical performance despite the
downside of being less pleasant to use in manual focus mode. I can
recall purchasing lots of manual focus Pentax lenses for peanuts and
loving to own and handle them. But the truth is that I took most -
and best - shots with FA consumer zomms at that time. Strange thing
to reflect upon.
Artur Ledóchowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisał / wrote:
> 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
> =========================================="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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