I know this may sound like piling on, but its not, as I have stated this many times in the past, but there is/was a also a build quality degradation from K to M series too, but not as much as from M to A. In fact, based on hundreds (maybe thousands) of Pentax lenses I have had in my possession over the years, the Super-Taks and Early SMC-Taks were the pinnable of mechanical refinement in their MF lens series IMHO. The late rubberized SMC takumars were slightly worse, and the early K about the same as those, then the M's even more slightly worse, and then the A series much worse then M series. I have only had a few F or later lenses and those were AF so I wont comment on those but there is definately distictive mechanical quality differences between the Pentax Man Focus lens series and it went downhill over time most likely for cost reasons to stay competitive. Thats where the old saying they dont make 'em like they used comes true....This is one of the reasons I am still upset about the lack of DSLR full support of K/M lenses, I simply do not like ( hate might be a better word ) the A series lenses for this reason alone. they just feel like ^%$^$* compared to a nice K series or Super/SMC Takumar lens. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Digital Image Studio Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:30 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: FS: Pentax SMC-A 35mm f/2 On 10/01/07, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well if you count all the ones I got and sold > over the years in pkg. deals, at least a couple > dozen total. I still have a few mint ones in my collection too but > even they are crass compared to the M and K ( even M42 too ) versions > mechanically, both the focus rings and aperture rings feel $#%$#%# > and I am talking like new, perfect condtion lenses > too. They just are simply not as mechanically refined > from what I have had the opportunity to see.... > I havent owned every singly model, no, thats why I said > "most" instead of "all" .... How many mint condtion > K and M lenses have you acually owned? ? ? Sill have two, but I've owned about ten over the years, mostly M, yes they feel good but in reality the top end A series lenses that I have retained are practically just as good. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
