The only D FA lenses being produced are the two macro's, the 50 and 100. I believe the 100 was jointly developed with Tokina, the 50 is based on the old 50 mm macro. Anyway, the old macro's were a bit large and heavy for todays DSLRs and I believe the antireflective coatings are the only digital specific design element in the new D FA lenses.
Mike. I've seen mention of D FA lenses in a few threads here. I believe that John or Godders mentioned that these lenses were designed with digital capture in mind and that they were also designed for a "full frame" sensor, or at least a sensor larger than that currently used in Pentax DSLR's. Do I have that right? If that's the case, how might such lenses behave when used with film? Would they provide better or worse results than current FA lenses given what we know about the requirements for good digital results? Why would pentax make such lenses unless it expects to be using larger sensors at some point? Perhaps to offer new glass to users of film cameras, and increase lens sales? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
