On 6/16/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, as I'd like to try other zooms before making a final decision, perhaps > you can suggest your favorite zoom, and why you like it. This might help > me decide which zoom to seek out and try next. > > Thanks for any help and suggestions. > > > Shel
My first ever Pentax zoom lens was the FA 28-105mm f4.5-5.6 Powerzoom "kit" lens I got with my first Pentax camera (Z-20). It was my only lens for many years and served me well in many different shooting situations, from my feeble attempts at street photography through to landscape, studio & snapshots. In the way of zooms I have since acquired: DA 16-45 f4 FA 80-200 f2.8 DA 10-17 f3.5-4.5 Various Sigma zooms which shall remain un-named. And after all these years the 28-105 is, IMO (with the exception of the 80-200), still the best of the of the lot WRT sharpness & "rendering". True, it's big & heavy, but it's a handy range for my type of photography & very sharp. It suffers somewhat from CA but that's not a big problem as I can generally fix that in the RAW converter. I must admit, as a long time zoom user I'm now something of a "prime snob", so the zooms don't get much of a workout. Dave S. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
