Around here in Toronto,it's the big thing. A lot of serious amateurs are going for the MF primes, especially Nikon users.
-Adam On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:59 PM, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My experience with the local photogs says otherwise. > > They buy the camera & kit lens & upgrade to the better non consumer glass. > > Old MF glass rarely enters into the purchasing decision matrix. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's simply not true. Manual focus glass is very definitely popular > > amongst some groups of photogs, some of whom, like myself, were > > recently new to Pentax. MF lenses were the first things I bought both > > times I've bought into the Pentax system in the last 3 years. > > > > -Adam > > > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:41 AM, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > People new to the brand aren't interested in manual focus lenses no > > > matter how good they are. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Dave. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:38 PM, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > short term maybe, but when FF permiates, the aps > > > > lenses are simply not going to be very desireable > > > > when you have got a nice FF camera in you hand. > > > > > > > > Secondly, the other half of my statement was that > > > > the secondary market for FF lenses ( assuming good > > > > ones like smc K,M,A,F,FA etc will soar in value, > > > > especially the ones with features you cant buy anymore like the > > > > K,M,A ( precision manual focus ). > > > > jco > > -- > > > 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.
