As mentioned the other day, I sold the FA77 lens and made way for the new DA70. It just arrived a half hour ago.
A tidy, compact lens, a little smaller/lighter than the FA77. It comes with a collapsible metal lens hood and the usual (for Limiteds) slip-off lens cap. Ugh, I hate those things ... slide out hoods and slip-off caps drive me nutty. Happily, I didn't sell the B+W 49mm screw-in metal, telephoto lens hood I used with the FA77. It's a little deeper than the stock lens hood: I did a few vignetting tests and found none, so that's what I'll use on this one too. I have a few cheap plastic, clip-on 49mm lens caps too. The Pentax bits will just stay in the box with the pouch. The Quickshift focusing mount is wonderful. I like the slightly shorter focal length .. it's more useful to me. The lighter weight, smaller size and Quickshift mount compensates for that 0.7 stop decrease in lens speed. I noticed in my vignetting tests that there's a little falloff at the corners of the frame wide open, cleans up nicely when stopped down a bit. The finish is on par with the FA77, FA31 and DA21 Limiteds. A very nice lens indeed. Now to go take some photographs. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
