I think you miss my main point. I don't use Pentax to use third party
glass. I have some, but I find more than enough satisfaction in my
Pentax lenses. If I was going to use third party lenses, Nikon offerers
better/more modern, though larger, camera bodies. That's not to dismiss
the K10 and K20 cameras. They are good solid cameras mostly middle of
the road cameras with some features not found in the competition, but
without the SMC K lenses I'd be looking at Nikon today.
Joseph McAllister wrote:
I have the AT-X Pro series of Tokina ; 20-28, 28-70, and 80-200, all
ƒ2.8 except the 20-28, of course, it being a ƒ2.6-2.8.
I found all three to be great in 35mm film like the LX and PZ-1p. But
their mass makes them pretty slow to auto-focus and tending towards
out of focus on a digital body. In manual focus they are still great.
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
On Nov 16, 2008, at 12:30 , JC OConnell wrote:
I cant comment on modern third party lenses, but back in
the 80's-90's the Tamron SP and Tokina AT-X series made a few
real doozies in lengths /ranges / speeds that Pentax didnt. I wouldnt
dismiss third parties
altogether....
JC O'Connell
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I have to agree with Dave, since the days of the MX and LX there hax
been little reason to use Pentax bodies other than the glass, which has
always been reason enough IMHO. There are a few classic lenses that I
use such as the Vivitar 70-210 S1 (version 2 & 3), and a couple of
others but I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to buy modern 3rd party
lenses. If I was going to be satisfied by them I'd switch to Nikon.
David Savage wrote:
I see no point in using Pentax bodies if you are just going to buy 3rd
party lenses.
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