Except that the A letter designation tells you lens functionality (IE it denotes that the lenses are KA mount instead of K) which is far more important information than whether or not the lens is a compact design, as the mount type determines functionality with the camera.
-Adam On 4/5/08, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > [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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
