> > From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/02/03 Fri PM 01:22:47 GMT > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Re: Vivitar 24mm/2.8 - any good? > > Juan Buhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Does anyone know if the Vivitar 24mm/2.8 is any good? How does it > >compare to, say, the K24mm/3.5? > > I had a Vivitar 24/2.8 once. It was about 10 years ago and I didn't have > a Pentax 24 for comparison so I can't really tell you how it rates on > that basis. Compounding the problem is the fact there may have been > several suppliers who made 24mm lenses for Vivitar (that was certainly > the case for most of their other lenses). > > That said, my impression was that an inexpensive prime almost always > beats the pants off an inexpensive zoom.!The Vivitar 24 cost me about > $79.00 new and was so much better than the 28-200 zoom I had at the time > that it started me down the path of prime lenses in general and > eventually Pentax primes in particular :) > Mine was a terrible example. Soft across the frame and with the flare resistance of a circa1972 Led Zeppelin groupie. The M24-35 beats the (loon) pants off it.
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