I've always liked the appearance of the Takumar lenses with the steel focus rings. I had the fisheye Tal at one time but sold it when I was raising funds for my D. On Oct 16, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> > On Oct 16, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Cotty wrote: > >> On 16/10/07, P. J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: >> >>> You would have been just as well served with the SMC T 17mm f 4.0, >>> and >>> could have avoided surgery, (you beast). >> >> I dislike the focus ring on these lenses. I prefer the later rubber >> grips. > > Having bought a Fish-Eye-Takumar 17/4 after enjoying Cotty's K17/4 FE > so much, I have to agree with him. The two lenses are near as nothing > to identical performance-wise, but the K17/4 FE is nicer to use. > > Beauty shots of L1 with both of them: > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/PANL1-17MM/ > > The minor advantage of the M42 lens is that it has an A/M switch on > it, so you can have it stopped down to optimum aperture (f/7.1 to f/8 > by my testing) and flip it from wide open to stopped down with the > flick of a switch for focusing then metering and exposure. But most > of the time I focus by zone and just leave the switch in the M > position, with the lens stopped down. > > Godfrey > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
