Thanks very much mate. i can get one pretty cheap, but i really want to start with a 45 or 55 so I'll wait. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gianfranco Irlanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 11:04 PM Subject: Re: 67 90mm f2.8
>J and K Messervy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What's this lens like? Any good? It's not particularly wide, > but I've >> found one that's affordable. >> >> Would I be better off waiting for a 55? > > Hi James, > > It depends on what you are looking for... > The 90mm (the "normal" one, not the leaf shutter one) is the > only 67 lens I bought new. I was looking for a normal lens (I > already had the 55 and the 165 at the time) but I wasn't sure I > would have liked the close focusing ability of the 105 so I went > for the 90. > It is a great all-around wide-normal lens (in terms of field of > view it is closer to a 43mm on the 135 cameras, so if you are > looking for a wide lens it may be disappointing), very small > although not light for the size. The pictures are reasonably > sharp at all apertures (I've been told that for wide open > performance the 105mm is a bit better), definitely tack sharp > when stopped down from 4-5-6 to 16. Only flaw is a tiny bit of > distorsion when focusing quite close, but nothing really > annoying (I used it for architecture a couple of times and it > was not an issue). > Hope this helps. > > Ciao, > > Gianfranco > > _ > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
