Congrats, Pancho. I hope you'll enjoy it. My A-version (I guess they are close to optically identical - 10 elements in 9 groups) is much loved and used! Regards
Jens Bladt Latest photographs: http://flickr.com/photos/bladt/ http://www.jensbladt.dk +45 56 63 77 11 +45 23 43 85 77 Skype: jensbladt248 -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Pancho Hasselbach Sendt: 1. marts 2007 23:42 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: Re: 20mm lens here to come Aaaarghhh, enabled! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290085495701 Just a hazard bid, done a hour and a hlf before end of the auction. Hard to believe that no one else bid on this. Well, in the bottom of my heart I'm a prime guy, I'll report how I like it, and will try to post some samples. Pancho Joseph Tainter schrieb: > "I believe Joe Tainter did that some time ago. His conclusion was that > it's almost a toss up on performance ... they both perform very well, > the DA21 is slightly better on some aspects." > > Correct. They are very close in terms of sharpness. > > In shooting, the DA 21 does have some barrel distortion. I never really > evaluated the FA 20 for that. > > > "I only had a Pentax FA20 once for a very short evaluation and found > it to be an excellent performer, better than my Canon 20/2.8." > > Photodo says so also. > > I can't bring myself to give up my FA 20, even through it will probably > come out of my travel kit if I get the DA* 16-50 F2.8. > > Joe -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.5/706 - Release Date: 02/28/2007 16:09 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.5/706 - Release Date: 02/28/2007 16:09 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
