i Stand by what I said earlier, the designation A or A* is no good because it only tells you that the lens has auto aperture or auto aperture high performance. There is no way of knowing whether any particular A or A* is a compact design the way the K an M told designations told you. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of P. J. Alling Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 11:51 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: My first A* Lens In this case it probably means both. The A* is identical to the M* 300 in every way including performance, which is very, very good in my experience. It is however a very compact lens and it does have it's limitations. It isn't particularly close focusing, well that does seem to be it's major limitation. The example I showed was a real world shot. I started to enumerate the reasons why this shot wasn't perfect but gave up. I don't know why I respond to any of JCO's posts even at third hand, he's always finds the dark cloud around the silver lining. Doug Franklin wrote: > J. C. O'Connell wrote: > > >> UNLESS, does A* mean compact A? I always thought it meant >> high performance A, not compact A. >> > > I always thought it meant high performance A, too. > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
