Hi, some remarks: it is FA, but FAJ lens and it has no Internal Focussing (IF). Front element doesn't rotate but barrel extends during focussing. This lens was originally destignated for *ist film bodies, so it works fine with film bodies. As it has no aperture ring, you have be able to control aperture electronically from body. It's quite sharp and has moderate geometrical abberations. Sure, there is some wide-end vignetting at at f/4, but at f/8 vignetting is not a big problem. FAJ18-35 is also quite good with digital bodies, I'd say better than DA18-55. It was my "dedicated" lens for my K10D from last december to august this year, when I got DA16-50. It snapped hundreds of nice photos both to film and digital media. You may ask more information directly (estonian, english or russian language)
BR, Margus Roman Melihhov wrote: > P-FA 18-35mm f4-5.6 AL IF is film accessory lense series and supposed to > cover full-frame or film light circle. I wonder if anyone has this lense > and can tell me whether it really work with film body and whether it > covers fill frame image area. By spec it has FOV 100˚-63˚ but I don't > know whether these spec. are for film or APS-C sensor. This lense is no > longer in production but it was first kit-lense with *istD body. I hope > someone can try it on film body and share above information with me. > > Thank you, > Roman > > -- 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.
