On Feb 7, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > It must be nice to be able to spend large sums of money to replace > perfectly function lenses for a marginal increase in performance and > functionality. Mandated deprication (read: loss of aperture coupler) > aside, obtaining 95% of the optical performance for 10% of the expense > sounds like a winning proposition to me. That is why I shoot pre-AF > lenses.... I would rather get 10x the lenses producing 95% the > performance of newer varieties.
It's not a matter of 'being able to spend large sums of money'. I depend upon these tools to produce my work and make my living. I want the best tools that exploit *all* the features of the body which I paid for. When I started with Pentax, I knew little about the line and bought a bunch of older lenses, all in pretty good condition, inexpensively. I used them for a while to sort out what I wanted for the kit, and sold them all at a fair price, which turned out to make a small profit. I took that money and bought the new lenses which I found did the job for my work. I only use five or six lenses total, and mostly just three. I rarely hang on to equipment I don't actually need. I'd rather have three superb lenses producing the best possible performance than thirty old lenses which don't perform quite as well. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
