Hi Francis I was quite surprised that the test animal portrait photos I took at 300mm with the Sigma AF 70-300mm zoom where quite good regarding sharpness. And nobody seems to like cheap Sigma zooms :-) I got that zoom in a bundle with an AF 400FTZ and a body and will probably sell it later when the Pentax lens dryness on auctions here continues. It looks like people buy everything with a K mount at the moment. On the other side the AF400FTZ seems to overexpose up to 2 stops with ISO 400 Kodak UC film in bright daylight on TTL on my SFXn film camera and a distance of about 2 meters with a middle grey! haired dog. At 5 meters everything looks fine again.
This list seems to prefer fast premium quality lenses despite the shortcomings :-) greetings Markus -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Francis Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 7:53 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: quick report: A 70-210 F4 on *ist-Ds On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 12:08:17PM +0100, Thibouille wrote: > I do not see any build quality on my particuliar DA 50-200. > It feels certainly beter built than ma DA 18-55. Wow. I'd seen quite a few put-downs of the 18-55, so I was very pleasantly surprised when I actually got one. It might not feel as solid as my FA* lenses, but I've no complaints. -- 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
