"Rodger Whitlock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It's a great lens. It was the first Pentax lens I ever bought (hence
>the single vote for it in the favorite lens survey) and I was
>thrilled to pieces a couple of years ago when I got a replacement for
>the original, which had died in a flood.
>
>It goes down to f/32; tell your S.O. that she should take care to
>learn to set the aperture appropriately to get the right depth of
>field, rather than just putting the thing on f/4 or f.5.6 and
>forgetting about it.
>
>It is a true macro lens with flat focus plane and optimized for close
>up work, but I had great success with it photographing all sorts of
>neat things. Ah, those were the days!
>
>Be careful. She may soon be producing much better pictures than you
>do.
Could be. Especially macro. She's already a great photographer when it comes to
microscopic stuff. Going to 1:1 reproduction ratio would be a big *reduction* in
magnification for her! Of course she doesn't have to worry about aperture or
shutter speed through the microscope.
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