Alan seems to be holding forth on Pentax's long term viability on the DP
review Pentax Forum these days. Though I've seen a post from him here
not long ago.
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Fred wrote:
I ask because I used to have the 43/1.9, and I used to grumble about a
"whirring" sort of manual focus feel to that lens design, yet I do
not feel
that annoyance with the 77/1.8 at all. Is the 77/1.8 better in this
regard, or is my mind merely playing tricks on me?
Alan Chan (where is that soul? Hope you are well mate!) had reported
that Pentax had modified the 77's gearing. Perhaps you have one of the
newer models.
HTH,
Kostas
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