Get yourself an FA20-35 so you can use it on both cameras. You won't regret it. It's the best short zoom I've seen ...
G On Jan 17, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Peter Lacus wrote: > FA-J 18-35 is another story. As focal length decreases so does the > quality. At 35mm some of the shots are actually quite good but I don't > have any at around 18mm. Probably I can still make a passable A5 print > from them, but they definively lack the qualities of the pictures > produced by both fixed 50s. I haven't compared them with anything > comparable so it may be quite normal behaviour (it's certainly > harder to > make a wide lens than normal/short tele), but the difference is > substantial. While I enjoy peeping (!) at pixels (!) from those fixed > 50s I can't say this about shots from 18-35, especially from the wide > end. My istDs seems to share my opinion, because it doesn't autofocus > properly at wide end (manually focused images are much sharper). It > looks that I have two options - either buy a fast, fixed wide (AKA the > expensive option) or stick with film and M28/3.5 which is what I'll > probably do -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
